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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
— Anthony Horowitz
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
Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.
— Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
— C.S. Lewis
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
Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain.
— Rabih Alameddine
Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
— Thomas Hardy
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
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
— Delmore Schwartz
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
— John Gregory Dunne
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
— George Washington
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?
— Jeanette Winterson
Die? Then so be it.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
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
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis
How does one say something new and not retell?
— Dejan Stojanovic
We are only writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
— Roland Barthes
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
— William Godwin
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
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
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
— Francis Bacon
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 have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
— Agnes Varda
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
— Terry Eagleton
The bible is literature, not dogma.
— George Santayana
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
— David Augsburger
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
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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
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
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
Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
— William Faulkner
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
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
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
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
— James Connolly
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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 passion to teach, to share deeply
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature. — Vera B. Williams
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature. — Vera B. Williams
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
— Deborah Harkness
I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.
— Michael Hastings
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
— Julia Glass
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan