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He did not like his new pet name. — Nicole Conway

Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either. — Jennifer Echols

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. — Wole Soyinka

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani

If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world? — Lakesha Ruise

Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them. — Pope Francis

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today? — Bruce Lee

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out. — Kin Hubbard

it takes more courage to live a life rather than end it, — Laura Landon

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. — Giacomo Casanova

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. — Lance Morrow

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. — Eric Schmidt

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. — Hassan Blasim

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them. — Joyce Rachelle

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political
especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. — Art Buchwald

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture. — Marcel Proust

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time. — Tacita Dean

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be. — Hollace M. Metzger

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic. — Mao Zedong

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. — Robert Delaunay

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass