Best habit & literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?”

Ifs Ends Happens Literature Individual Style Personality Habit Lovers Clouds Checks Being True Streams Protest Perpetual Quotations Indulge Spontaneity Indulge In Insidious Good Literature

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?”

People Way Giving Mind Looks Literature Voice Wealth Pleasure Conditions Amount Habit Mouths Manners Tone Furniture

Book:Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

Source: Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

Facts Fall Literature Wife Rocks Habit Mere My Wife Compare Dropping Goats Beastly

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.”

Stories Literature Principles Sun Habit Conscious Concepts Tradition Structure Mythology Traditional Mature Metaphoric Sun God

Author:Northrop Frye

“... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.”

Believe Lying Literature Half Habit Defense Half Truth Ideologues

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.”

People Knows Believe Book Values Reading Literature Lost Fiction Particular Reader Habit Entertainment Enjoyed Sentimental Frivolous Sentimental Value

Author:David Nicholls

“Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.”

Literature Habit Dirty Smoking Professors Devoted Quotations Hazards English Literature Quoting Occupational Hazards

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.”

Character Literature Habit Ambition Paid Miles Extras Rendering Extra Mile Where You Stand Going The Extra Mile

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.”

Literature Habit Caught Bad Habits

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”

Literature Habit Luxury Enjoyment Dull Converting Luxurious

Author:Aldous Huxley

“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”

Literature Habit Live By Quotations

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.”

Soul Form Literature Habit Countenance

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.”

Has Beens Literature Black Study Habit Native Tenderness Black Women Stolen

Author:Audre Lorde

“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.”

Men Literature Violence Habit Blame Faults Fierce Unfair

Book:INWARD HO!

Source: INWARD HO!

“Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.”

Self School Courses Literature Habit High School Stuck Clothings Boots School Life

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?”

Literature Habit Bed Waste Weekend Precious Time

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”

Men Kind Literature Steps Mankind Habit Traps Bait

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

Ifs Happiness Literature Alive Habit Walking Trails Insatiable Unafraid Ruts Incessantly

Book:A Backward Glance

Source: A Backward Glance

“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”

Mind Form Literature Silence Habit Isolation Concentration Habits Of Mind Enigmatic

Author:Philip Roth

“The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Literature Individual Sides Mistake Worst Habit Contact Assumption Encounters Unfortunate Both Sides First Contact

Author:David Brin

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

People Ifs Kind Might Form Reading Literature Fiction Habit Clean Entertainment Worth Reading Good Literature Best Literature

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

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