#liter

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

#discouraging #i #know #literature #more

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #christopher #columbus #discount #even

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate! ↗

— Patty Murray

#computer #guess #i #i am #literate

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

#hermit #literature #simile #wilderness #funny

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#authoritative #community #expert #global #illiteracy

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#best #chance #college #felt #four

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#baby #bad #called #condition #either

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions