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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.