Top 1200 Best Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.
Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
Life should imitate romance literature far more often.
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
