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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.