literature quotes

• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists. (Henry Miller) [men/suffering/literature/art]
• What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. (Henry Miller) [literature]
• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. (Iris Murdoch) [literature]
• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. (Octavio Paz) [literature/feeling/language/human]
• Literature is news that stays news. (Ezra Pound) [literature/news/news]
• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. (Ezra Pound) [literature/language]
• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. (Ezra Pound) [literature/writers/ability/writers]
• A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. (Ezra Pound) [age/literature/age]
• The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. (Salman Rushdie) [literature/being/human/being]
• The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. (Salman Rushdie) [literature/order/being]
• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. (Salman Rushdie) [literature/human/society/human]
• Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. ( Seneca) [leisure/literature/death]
• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. (George Bernard Shaw) [literature/language]
• Perversity is the muse of modern literature. (Susan Sontag) [literature]
• Remarks are not literature. (Gertrude Stein) [literature]
• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. (Oscar Wilde) [ignorance/life/literature]
• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. (Oscar Wilde) [literature/literature]
• Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. (Oscar Wilde) [literature/life]
• I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. (Oscar Wilde) [literature/thing]
• From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. (Oscar Wilde) [point/literature/genius/point]
• Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. (Harvey Keitel) [literature/people/share/]
• What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. (Harvey Keitel) [literature/words]
• What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. (Harvey Keitel) [literature/words]
• And on top of that, my dad is a professor of literature so he's very, very smart. So I was always thinking, 'How I can aspire to be him?' There was this intimidating aura growing up with a university professor. (Nicolas Cage) [top/literature/thinking]
• I've also been doing all the literature, Italian literature. But no, I don't like to repeat very much. I like to float with the camera. (Claudia Cardinale) [literature/literature]
• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. (Kathy Acker) [literature/people/collectivism/writers]
• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. (Dorothy Day) [reading/night/literature]
• Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. (Armand Assante) [literature]

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