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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin
Religion Political Blindly Become System Adopt Dogma Cease Political System Literary Grow
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer
Good Needs News Satire Humor Power Clever Style Headlines Editorial Accuracy Literary Newspaper Page Descriptive Originality
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? Margaret Atwood
You People Problem Every Faces Stick Fit Same Just Literary Who Utopia
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. Harold Bloom
Future Say States Would No Future Studies Literary United United States
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. Ignazio Silone
Saying Mistake Liberty Political Doubting Philosophic Possibility Religious Making Authority Any Artistic Literary Experimenting Social Even Searching
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. Joseph Conrad
Man Political Passion Action Consistent Outlook Wins Mostly Himself His Friends Literary Prejudices
There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. Catherine Jinks
Nothing Finest Exciting Non-Fiction Very Quite Literary Moving
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. Dan Simmons
History Three Down Definition Complexity Only Been The History Of Movie Literary Movies Aspire Film Four
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. Doris Lessing
Book Job Think Thinking Mine Way Slightly Would Someone Something Writer Writers Had Like Perhaps Know Read Equivalent Questions Provoke Different Literary Them Shower Different Way Start
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept. H. P. Lovecraft
Good Will Reading Guide Must Cases More Never Attempts Learner Polish Judicious Cease Effective Begin Precept Than Authors Any Hold Literary Gaining Usage Many Found Amount Phase
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?' Janet Fitch
Great Me You Library World Engineer Father Journalist Every Local Our Books Weeks Writer Take He Arms Read Readers Shelf Off Up Branch Literary Them Two Pull Two Weeks
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith
Freedom People Criticism Laziness Extreme Latter Terminal Academic Cherished Cover Being Literary Literary Criticism Either Inadequacy Cerebral Much Aspect Specialization Whom Grave
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world. Sandra Cisneros
World Alien Our Books Latino Small Through Writers Count Talented Because Am Still Literary Illegal Illegal Aliens Many Published
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks
Life Time Valuable Value Thought Life Is A Lasts Way Criterion Something Only Poets Because Am Human Just Sensation Just Because Romantic Literary Whether Which Mean Then Fleeting Human Life Who Whole Waste Waste Of Time
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. Stendhal
Work Politics Impossible Gun Something Like Concert Vulgar However Middle Literary Literary Work Which Shot Ignore
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. Theodore Sturgeon
Science Field Parameters Only Poetry Outside Science Fiction Limits Whatsoever Fiction Literary Which
When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors. Timothy Leary
Knowledge Personality Behavior Will Past Our Ancestors Systematic Possible Determine Determined More Advanced Study Implied Documents Historical Human Literary Views Expressed Expressive
I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry. Tracy K. Smith
Love People College Those Cities Rural See Poetry Area Tend Writers Outside Smaller Towns Read Surely Go Lot Questions Texts Festivals Conferences Same Move Where Literary Happens Communities Who Eager
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together. A. S. Byatt
Good Together Language Think Books Complexities About Studies Putting Terribly Idiosyncrasies Been Literary While Interesting Theory English
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. Aaron Copland
Music Man Together Words Will About Puts Wrong Literary Them Two
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. Adam Johnson
Character Book World Single About Writer Written Read Single Person Years Truly Person Sixty Where Literary Center Place Which Novel Imagine
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level. Adam Mansbach
Me World Humor Big Think Gives Take Part Big Part Artistic Being Literary Sensibility Certain Level Jewish
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. Adrian Mitchell
Me Language Believe Some Friends Want Literary Them Use Used
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies. Adrian Younge
Time Culture Black First Out Response Embracing Cage First Time Era Came American American Culture Literary Movies Hollywood Height Notion Luke
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews. Alafair Burke
Dark Own Think Back Secrets About My Own Could Families Maybe Literary Held Exploration Now
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel. Alaya Dawn Johnson
People Think Everyone Books Bought Velvet Come Wrote Underground Equivalent Did Literary Who Many Novel
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