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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free. — Helen Keller

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing — Cynthia Kadohata

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her. — D.H. Lawrence

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time. — Joseph Campbell

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future. — Joshua Rogers

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things. — The Prolific Penman

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. — Paul De Man

Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time. — Donald Hays

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day. — Howard Nemerov

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything. — Ned Rorem

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove. — G.H. Hardy

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead? — Mark Zero

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. — Sophocles

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets. — Roman Payne

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore

Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it. — Sahndra Fon Dufe

Anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I've been writing this story; so it's hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man's done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles. — Lorrie Moore

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. — Howard Nemerov

I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between dog and wolf'. — Alexander Pushkin

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. — John Green

From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want. — Caroline Rody

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. — Doris Lessing

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. — Emilie Autumn

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this. — Salvador Plascencia

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework. — Greg Pincus

Only when, years later, I touched for the first time my lover's body did I realize that literature could sometimes fall short of the actural event. — Alberto Manguel

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours. — Teju Cole

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. — Doris Lessing

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. — Isaac D'Israeli

Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time. — Pat Conroy

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time ... The wait is simply too long. — Leonard Bernstein

We travel to ancient times by reading history books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen. — Greg McVicker

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. — Michael Ondaatje

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. — Gore Vidal

Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa

Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder. — Murong Xuecun

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences. — J.A. Burrow

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff

Jocelyn's stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast. — Heidi Schulz

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. — Dario Fo

In a time when women were almost silent or invisible in literature, Scripture affirms and celebrates women. — Sarah Bessey

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time. — Yehuda Amichai

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time. — Linda Sue Park

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations. — Karl Ove Knausgard

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. — Julian Barnes

Half the time, in this life, you wouldn't know where you are nor when. There are moments of unpleasant liveliness. Tamp that the fuck down is best. — Kevin Barry

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. — Georg Brandes

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. — Dejan Stojanovic

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. — Anurag Shourie

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad. — Joshua Cohen

We are all orbits of some sort,
circling around the world we call our own,
and literature...
Literature is a compass; — Thabo Jijana

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time. — Dejan Stojanovic

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. — Don DeLillo

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. — Mark Twain

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level. — Naguib Mahfouz

With each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature. — P.G. Wodehouse

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. — J.M. Barrie

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without space, there is no time. — Dejan Stojanovic

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know. — Henry David Thoreau