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Literature Quotes (page 24)

Leo Tolstoy quote: "All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a..."
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Leo Tolstoy
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature. Mahatma Gandhi
Charles Simic quote: "The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to..."
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. Charles Simic
James Dickey quote: "The women of the South have brought into American literature a..."
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. James Dickey
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry."
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible? time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket. Richard Ford
The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more strenuous intercourse. These are the persons who "make it a rule to read. Edith Wharton
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul. Thomas Moore
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful. L. M. Montgomery
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. David O. McKay
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. Georges Bataille
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. The other view is a lie of literature and the liberal arts, which is why I did not succeed as a teacher, and another reason I put my novel away in the drawer and have not taken it out. Richard Ford
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. John Keats
So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks! Gustave Flaubert
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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