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Literature Quotes (page 22)

Harold Pinter quote: "I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature."
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. Harold Pinter
Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys," Fenig said. "An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at an infinite number of typewriters and eventually one of them reproduces a great work of literature. In what language I don't know. But what about an infinite number of writers in an infinite number of cages? Would they make on monkey sound? One genuine chimp noise? Would they eventually swing by their toes from an infinite number of monkey bars? Would they shit monkey... Don DeLillo
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for its power to stir the passions and she rebelled before the mysteries of faith just as she grew ever more restive under discipline, which was antipathetic to her nature. Gustave Flaubert
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge. Flannery O'Connor
Mark Twain quote: "There are three things men can do with women: love them,..."
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature. Mark Twain
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] Northrop Frye
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence. Orson Scott Card
Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son, he lived alone with his widowed mother, whom me adored. Together they studied literature and art; together they visted Paris, Baden-Baden, Rome, moving always in the best society, from Schloss to chteau, from chteau to palace, gentle, charming, appreciative; in a state of perpeutal tender anxiety about each other's health. Christopher Isherwood
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The world must be all fucked up...when men travel first class..."
The world must be all fucked up...when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Northrop Frye quote: "The world of literature is a world where there is no reality..."
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. Northrop Frye
E. M. Forster quote: "for literature had always been a solace for him, something..."
...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil. E. M. Forster
Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty. Fernando Pessoa
The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, "the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages. Edith Hamilton
The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. In both, it is of the lowest order of merit. Edgar Allan Poe
Antonio Tabucchi quote: "personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's..."
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. Antonio Tabucchi

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