#liter

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#appalled #fact #i #life #literally

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life. ↗

— Yvonne Jayne

#literature #philosophy #writing #life

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#literature #magic #modernism #myth #surrealism

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#food #how #i #i came #knowledge

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time. ↗

— Tacita Dean

#literary-criticism #art

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#able #century #connect #deep #deep way

A castaway adrift on my own little island - rich and with my family along with thousands of beautiful, drunken tourists to keep me company.” - excerpt from Confessions of an Internet Pornographer. ↗

— Luis Mario

#beauty

The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised; time discredits it. And this is important. Apocalypse can be disconfirmed without being discredited. This is part of its extraordinary resilience. It can also absorb changing interests, rival apocalypses, such as the Sibylline writings. It is patient of change and of historiographical sophistications. It allows itself to be diffused, blended with other varieties of fiction--tragedy, for example, myths of Empire and of Decadence--and yet it can survive in very naïve forms. Probably the most sophisticated of us is capable at times of naïve reactions to the End. ↗

— Frank Kermode

#change

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#courage

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#courage