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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz

The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom. — Subhan Zein

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. — Henry James

The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The — Edward Gibbon

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. — Zaha Hadid

No literature can ever soothe the hearts of those who have lost their loved ones. — Viraj J. Mahajan

The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an atmospheric spoon. — Neale Osborne

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

The worth of a book is infinite. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — H.L. Mencken

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. — Nick Johnson

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! — John Wain

Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. — C.S. Lewis

Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown — Holly Black

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. — Abhijit Naskar

The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. — Kwame Nkrumah

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. — Piers Anthony

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

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. — Katherine Paterson

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. — Frederick Lenz

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

There is only one school of literature - that of talent. — Vladimir Nabokov

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never ... occupy a place in contemporary literature. — Italo Calvino

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. — Junot Diaz

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. — Thomas M. Disch

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. — Charles J. Shields

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life. — Meridel Le Sueur

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. — Harold Bloom

To the knights of faith nobody believes. — Dejan Stojanovic

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. — Ivan Klima

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon

Science fiction is the very literature of change. — Frederik Pohl

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. — Ethel Turner

One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.) — Marcel Proust

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

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. — William Godwin

The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness. — F. Sionil Jose

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. — Dejan Stojanovic

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. — Sherman Alexie

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.' — John Fusco

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye

...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by dint of love and bravery. — Joseph Bedier

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. — Darin Strauss

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night — Harper Lee

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Isaac D'Israeli

Bad literature is a form of treason. — Joseph Brodsky

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here. — Suzette Mayr

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired. — Melanie Benjamin

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality ... — George Bernard Shaw

Literature, of course, is not a contest. — Lorrie Moore

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are. — Ellen Datlow

Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it. — Cynthia Ozick

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Romance is the poetry of literature. — Suzanne Curchod

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

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

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable. — Kate Zambreno

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well. — Patricia Lockwood

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. — David Augsburger

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan