Literature Quotes - Page 15

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

The universe is God's son.

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

After all, tomorrow is another day!

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Do you realize that all great literature - "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" - are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true - without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!