Quotes 11701 till 11720 of 25137.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
Source: The Human Stain (2000) -
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.
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Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.
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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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