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Literature Quotes

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

Think Thought Questions Literature

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

Thomas Steinbeck

Reading Name Someone Literature Over

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

Man Friends Literature Student Nice

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

Beach Book Literature Become Always

I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.

Character History Evil Literature

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Suffering Literature Instinct Union

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Politics Religion I Am Literature Am

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

Literature Us Transcend Ourselves

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Horton Cooley

Life Struggle Self Literature Social

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Thomas Bulfinch

Happiness Best Literature Virtue

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

Art Culture Literature Comfortable

I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.

Miriam Margolyes

Theatre Think Literature You Mean

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

Father Mother War Bridge Literature

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.

Children Door Literature True Adult

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

Samantha Shannon

Love World Literature Create More

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'

Literature Years Professor Us Milan

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

American Literature Years Degree Got

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Life Step Me Reading Literature

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Mother Day Me Believe Literature

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

Lloyd Alexander

Children Art Literature Other Form

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education World Literature I Can Say

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

Richard Dawkins

History Religion Literature You Than

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

Literature Heroes Italian Thesis

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

Joyce Carol Oates

Perspective Story Present Literature

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