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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.