Top 1200 Modern Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

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

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

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

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

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

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

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

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.