Extremes Quote by Winston Churchill

“[T]he mere existence of others who have radically different beliefs about the nature of reality poses an explicit challenge to the claims of absolute…

— Sheldon Solomon Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczyinski

“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.”

— Dave Wolverton

“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

“The principal aim underlying this work is to render homage where homage is due, a task which I know beforehand is impossible of accomplishment.…

— Henry Miller

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern…

— Lionel Trilling

“how easily people can zealously pursue and defend a point of view, often ignoring inconvenient facts that interfere with their desired belief structure. I”

— Jay Allan

“Nonfiction has crept closer to fiction in our time in ways that are not flattering to fiction, in part because too many writers cannot…

— Rebecca Solnit