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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.
There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.