“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.” IfsMeanCareValuesLiteratureLostLanguageVirtueProductsKeysMoralityCeaseChemicalsMeaninglessHistoricTransmit Author:Lewis Mumford
“Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what most writers really care about.” PeopleImportantCareLiteratureRight NowUltimate Author:Michael Dirda
“Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.” ThinkingNeedsDoeCareLiteratureWinningPresidentChiefsPrizeCommandersNobelNobel PrizeCommander In Chief Author:Stephen Colbert
“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.” PeopleCareSchoolLiteratureStuffCrazySacredInstanceDamnVersesModernismMutantsFree VerseSchool Experience Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.” IfsCareLiteratureGreat Writers Author:Irwin Shaw
“And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would?” CareLiteratureWardrobe Author:Lisa Guerrero
“The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.” HumansHeartArtCharacterCareJoyLiteratureBeautyContemplationSubtleAnxiousSoothingNature Beauty Book:Success and Its Conditions Source: Success and Its Conditions