Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.