A Quotes
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“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.”
Source: The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha
“All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.”
“All literature is gossip.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“All literature is political.”
“All literature is protest.”
“All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.”
“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)”
Source: The Sins of the Fathers
“All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.”
“All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”
“All literature, is, finally autobiographical.”
“All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.”
“All little girls should be told they are pretty.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“All live by seeming.
The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
All practise it; and he who is content
With showing what he is, shall have small credit
In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.”
Source: The Waverley novels. 25 vols.
“All live for self, all are miserable. You for one live for others, giving up all label.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“All live to die, and rise to fall.”
Source: Edward II: With Related Texts
“All lived lives of dignity and repression.”
“All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.”
“All lives are connected to other lives and when one man goes, much more goes than the man goes with him. One has to look on oneself as the custodian of a quantity and a quality — oneself — which is absolutely unique in the world because it has never been here before and will never be here again.”
Source: Nothing Personal
“All lives are different. All of them matter or none matters.”
Source: Insomnia
“All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.”
“All lives are precious. Even those of the incredibly rude.”
Source: Star Wars: Life Day Treasury - Holiday Stories From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
“All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.”
“All lives have an equal value.”
“All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.”
“All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.”
“All lives matter is an intellectual luxury cooked up by closet philosophers, whereas black lives matter is an actual manifestation of the value of life through tangible human actions, which is moulding a world where all lives truly matter, not theoretically, but actually.”
“All Lives Matter is directly related to white people not wanting to see color and not wanting to make things about race.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“All lives – society’s trivial, trifling toys:
As citizen improves, oft state destroys (p. 39).”
Source: Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry
“All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.”
“All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.”
“All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.”
“All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.”
Source: King Solomon's ring: new light on animal ways
“All living beings have to take incarnations. Companions are just like pedestrians in the way.”
Source: S
“All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.”
Source: What is Life?
“All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.”
“All living creatures always sense what heals their woe—a code in their subconscious.”
Source: The High Auction
“All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.”
“All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.”
“All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.”
“All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.”
Source: Seek!: Selected Nonfiction
“All living things are recycled.”
Source: The Transhumanism Handbook
“All living things are sensitive to their surroundings and convey distress and sorrow as well as joy. Trees are no exception as they are most rooted to mother earth and their limbs carry knowledge we can only aspire to obtain.”
Source: Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”
Source: Life of Pi
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”
Source: Life of Pi
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“All living things eventually die. It's unavoidable. But as long as you remember, it will live on in your heart forever.”
“All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux