Anticipate Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anticipate Books Copies Life Literature Mould Purpose
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together… — Larry Conley Copy Share Image
