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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...
Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.