Top 1200 Love Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

I love playing football every day. I love working hard, I love training, I love the games; I love the challenge. As long as that still applies, I don't see any reason to call time on something that makes me so happy.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.

Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever...I hope.

And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love, but for something more than love. Their language ends with love; they don't know any way that is higher than love, and love does not satisfy. On the contrary, the more you love the more thirsty you become. At the fourth center of love, one feels a tremendous satisfaction only when energy starts moving to the fifth center.

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.