I Quotes
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“In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.”
“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.”
“In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.”
Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
“In literature analysis, the constructivist approach transforms passive reading into active exploration, where students collaboratively construct meaning, fostering deeper comprehension and personal connection with the text.”
“In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.”
“In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.”
Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
“In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.”
“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
“In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.”
Source: The Journal of Albion Moonlight
“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
“In literature imitations do not imitate.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is only another name for tameness. It is the untamed, uncivilized, free, and wild thinking in Hamlet, in the Iliad, and in all the scriptures and mythologies that delights us, — not learned in the schools, not refined and polished by art. A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvellous, ambrosial and fertile, as a fungus or a lichen.”
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.”
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
“In literature, words are used to give pleasures to your mind. In spirituality, words are used to take you beyond mind into the ultimate bliss of wordlessness (silence). Many seekers mistake spirituality as literature. They just enjoy the use of poetic words and stories.”
“In Literature, only trouble is interesting.”
Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft
“In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.”
Source: Anatomy of Criticism
“In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.”
“In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!”
“In literature, you know only what you imagine”
Source: This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life
“In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!”
“In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.”
“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.”
“In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching. On the sidewalks along which everybody comes and goes, you must, if you walk abroad at all, at some time pass within a few inches of the man who cheated and betrayed you, or the woman you desire more than anything else in the world. Her skirt brushes against you. You say good-morning, and go on. It is a close shave. Out in the world the escapes are not so narrow.”
Source: Lucy Gayheart
“In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.”
Source: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...
“In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.”
“In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.”
“In live stage, the actor lives.”
“In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.”
“In Liverpool, UK, President Trump would be known as a ‘Scallywag’.”
“In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.”
“In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.”
“In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature.
Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race.”
Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America
“In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel.”
“In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.”
“In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“In living we die, in dying we live.”
Source: When Heaven Weeps: Newly Repackaged Novel from The Martyr's Song Series
“In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.”
“In logic, there are no morals.”
Source: Logical Syntax of Language
“In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.”
“In London, Alexander knows, they like neither his sister nor himself. Society considers the Tsar silly and vain, a ballroom dancer with golden curls and a lorgnette up his sleeve, an aloof monarch who turns a deaf ear, as Napolean said of him at Erfurt, to anything he does not want to hear. In effect, when the Tsar turns an ear, it is only to favour the right, as he is quite deaf in the left. Yes, Alexander loves to dance, he is myopic, he turns a deaf ear. What of it?”
Source: Be My Wolff
“In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.”
“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.”
Source: A Star Danced
“In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.”
“In London I'm out and about all the time. I walk everywhere, so people do recognise me and they've probably seen me before so they're not bothered anymore. But I think that's a good thing because if you try and remain mysterious people are surprised when they see you. With me, I think they're just bored of seeing me - but that suits me just fine because I like to live as much of a normal life as I can. That's why I love living in London. People are very respectful of your privacy. If they see you having a coffee in a coffee shop, they're not going to interrupt you.”
“In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.”
“In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.”