Literature Quotes - Page 10

• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

  Mason Cooley

  Imagination

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• Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

  Mason Cooley

  Consciousness, Reprieve

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• The only peace is being out of earshot.

  Mason Cooley

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• The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Mirrors, Faces

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• To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Successful, Littles, Being Successful

  "City Aphorisms: Tenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

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• To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

  Edwin Markham

  Sides, Things To Do, Oneself

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• One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

  Joseph Campbell

  News, Today, Spirit

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.1, Anchor

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• Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

  John Dos Passos

  Renaissance, London, Currents

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• Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  Robert Benchley

  Spring, Writing, Soul

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• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Learning, Advice

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• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Solitude, Would Be

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• I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wanted, Persons, Comfortable

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.59, Ballantine Books

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• In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

  Franz Kafka

  Goodness, Certain

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Evil, Mediation

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

  Hesiod

  Family, Brother, Witness

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Infinity, Infinite, Barbs

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

  Cyril Connolly

  Hate, Long, Littles

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Rap, Thinking, People

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• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  Karel Capek

  Fighting, Creating, Cognition

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Inheritance, England, Dignity

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• One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blood, Style, Tire

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• The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Mania

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• New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cases, Havens

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Poetry, Magazines

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• I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cities, Paris

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