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Can I help it if the world cannot worship what it has not first martyred? — Casper Silk

The moment weighs down on me, threatening to unstitch my seams and expose me to the world. — Rebecca Berto

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent. — Rebecca Stead

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. — Fay Godwin

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

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. — Jay McInerney

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. — Rafael Sabatini

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb. — Pliny The Elder

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. — T. S. Eliot

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. — Parker J. Palmer

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all. — Imelda Staunton

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd

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

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — Harold Bloom

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor ... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level. — Adam Mansbach

The Lord giveth and the world taketh away. — Maryann Austin

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow

Write the wrong
Wrong the right
Spite the good fight
With no respite
And set the
Literary world
Alight — Robert Black

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne. — Cleanth Brooks

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world. — Neil Gaiman

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone. — Graham Spaid

I live within the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But with whom, in the Pooh world, could a sexually and politically aroused Kanga speak? — Frederick C. Crews

Editors are the literary surgeons of the world. — Suzanne Steele

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. — Bernardo Bertolucci

He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well. — Orna Ross

Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements. — Lee Patterson

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word. — Louise Penny

The world is full of sluts on skates. From Penn-warren's "All the Kings Men. — Martha Miller

I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please. — Gabrielle Zevin

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that. — Arthur Miller

We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words. — Orna Ross