“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.” UseLiteratureConditionsTheoryGoes OnPermit Author:Andre Gide
“The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.” WorldFeelsStillsBookCharacterWantedLiteratureInterestingGoes OnSeriesCasts Author:Fred Saberhagen
“People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.” PeopleWayBookEyeUsedReadingLiteratureGamesWrittenTelevisionGoes OnEarsEducatedUsed To BeReading BooksThrough The EyesWatching Television Author:Gore Vidal
“The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.” PeopleLoveYearsFallLiteratureChangeRealizingChurchGoes OnFalling In LovePriesthood Book:Henry and Cato Source: Henry and Cato
“It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.” SaidLiteratureGoes OnNow And ThenTime Goes On Author:George Jean Nathan
“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.” WritingGirlLiteratureBlackPoorHairGoes OnMidnightThis GirlHappy GirlBlack HairLong Black Hair Author:Carl Sandburg
“I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.” MindHumansFactsLiteratureBrainTheoryGoes OnComputerBlowHuman MindOverload Author:Erma Bombeck
“How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?” NextLiteratureWeekGoes OnNext Week Author:Erma Bombeck
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?” IfsWorldDifferentLiteratureWonderGoes OnGet UpKneesSnowflake Author:Jeanette Winterson