“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.” WritingWellsEnoughSeemsLiteratureRealizingFailingOne ThingDepends Book:Flaubert's Parrot Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.” LiteraturePowerfulLeaderSupportFailingCitizensDemocraticPeacefulDependentIncentivesProsperousDemocratic Leaders Author:Natan Sharansky
“What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).” MeanDoeArtArtistCoursesReadingLiteratureTermSuccessfulFailingCreationEqualStandardsIntuitionArtisticWorldlyGood ArtSummaryGood ArtistActualizationArtistic CreationSuccessful Artists Author:Donald Barthelme
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.” IdeasLiteratureSituationFailing Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book.” PeopleTwoBookDoneFightingLiteratureWinningNovelFailingTalentRemarkableRemindersPossessingLives Of Others Author:Andrew Sean Greer
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.” PeopleIfsWritingLooksImportantEndsHandsWantedEarthLiteratureExistenceStruggleFailingExampleMonthsImportant ThingsHungerHungryPlentyBehaveParadoxLeisure Author:Stig Dagerman
“The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.” IfsWritingLiteratureFailingSucceedHatredRewardsExpectedContempt Author:Voltaire
“A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.” MenPersonsTurnsLiteratureUnitedFailingTasteGreat Men Author:John Adams