When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w
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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions
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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister
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All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed and will never produce great harvests of thought and literature. When forms become fixed, the spirit either weakly accepts its imprisonment or rebels. All revolutions consists of the within fighting against invasion from without.. All great human movements are related to some great idea.
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The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation.
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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil
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I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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For our particular purposes, one of the things they get to do is study great literature in depth.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted.... Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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We have to stop pretending the situation is not critical. There is a body of literature out there that speaks to the education of the African-American child. It's not included in this plan.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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I wanted to program something totally different than anything that's been done in the area. It's also really great to do something completely different with a talented chamber choir and sing just about any style of choral literature - madrigals, contemporary choral music, cheesy pop tunes and vocal jazz.
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One of the things that's becoming very consistent when you look at the literature is that it is costing employers quite a bit in terms of absenteeism, higher health and medical expenses and reduced productivity when their workers are inactive or overweight.
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Judaism is a civilization. It has history, culture, literature. It has jokes,.. Part of any civilization is its religious beliefs, and so part of Judaism is the religion of the Jew, but they are not the same thing. We're looking at the ways in which a person who is Jewish by birth, civilization, culture, context and family may look at things differently from the way a person who is Catholic and lives down the road may see them.
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