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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.