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“There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.”

Giving Literature Sublime

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.”

Giving Mother Literature Oneself Motherhood Craving Reckless

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.”

Giving Mean Literature

Book:Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.”

Way Giving Reason Play Film Fall Literature Speak Powerful Loneliness Example Representation Falling Apart Representing

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.”

People Giving Years Firsts Believe May Art Care Certain Literature I Believe Sound Sides Knowing Successful Too Much Strange Serious Freeze Dealer Caring Too Much Love Literature

Author:Andy Warhol

“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.”

Ifs Giving Humans Used Literature Expression Breaths Investigation

Author:E. W. Howe

“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.”

Giving Desire Literature Answers Expectations Disappointment Satisfaction Heartache Anticipation Stubborn Disappoint

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.”

Giving Literature Sides Hell Path Fire Gold Painful Silver Agony Foreheads Tidy Branded Gold And Silver Tidings Hell Fire

Author:Kin Hubbard

“As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.”

Knows Men Giving Literature Boys Giving Up Sight Verses Masterpiece My Boys

Author:Ezra Pound