#liter

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#literature #beauty

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. ↗

— Thomas McGuane

#literature #writing #writing-life #death

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#artist #authoritarianism #corruption #embarrass #expose

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#end #experience #in the end #literary #material

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

#i #literature #mediocrity #suffocating

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#always #i #know #last #literally

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#danger #dull #genius #greatest #greatest danger

Starting with the hypothesis that all the characters in Women in Love suffer from acute dissociation of sensibility, it becomes clear that psychological reintegration is no longer possible for them, and complete divorce between reason and emotion, mind and body, is imminent. As a result, the characters become mental or physical in basic nature and are symbolically presented accordingly. ↗

— John E. Stoll

#love