Good is often the enemy of best.
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. " Our quote of the day is, from of all people, the Marquis de Sade, the most infamous writer in all of French literature. And by the way, if you recognized that quote, you're sick.
Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great literature in the way it envelops you in a well-told story while also evoking subtle but strong gradations of emotion.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.
Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.