Literature Quotes - Page 18

• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

  Harold Pinter

  World, Systematic, Crime

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  Harold Pinter

  Speak, Ought

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• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

  Harold Pinter

  Maelstrom, Centre

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

  Tibor Fischer

  Events, Half, Arguing

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• I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

  Diane Wakoski

  Voice, Narrative, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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• I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

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• Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

  Diane Wakoski

  Today, Language, Sometimes

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• Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

  Bruce Sterling

  People, Guy, Political

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• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

  Bruce Sterling

  Home, Ignorance, Privacy

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

  Lucy Lawless

  Night, Acting, Sitting

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• I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Sex, Thinking, Nonfiction

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• To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

  James Buchan

  Couple, Love You, People

  "The women come and go". www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2004.

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• I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Hands, People

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• You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

  Anne Rice

  New York, Looks, Lists

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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

  Terry Eagleton

  Home, Character, Plot

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

  Paul de Man

  Book, Men, Names

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• On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

  Ken Olsen

  Doe, Done, Computer

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• About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Subjects

  "Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) by Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Would Be, Criticize

  "Athenaeum Fragments" by Friedrich Schlegel, #56 (B&S), 1798.

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• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Degrees, World, Individual

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• I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

  Pratibha Patil

  Happiness, Art, Believe

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

  Polly Toynbee

  Art, Knowing, Iconography

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Rooms, Worst

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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