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“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.”

Writing Wells Enough Seems Literature Realizing Failing One Thing Depends

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.”

Men Giving Mind Literature One Thing Charm Bores Uneasy Irritated Unrest

Author:Anatole France

“One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.”

World Feels Book Literature Easy Walks Rooms One Thing Stores Overwhelmed

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.”

Literature President One Thing Achievement Affair Lists Remembered Suspects Watergate Foreign Affairs

Author:Bob Woodward

“It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.”

Years Doe Two Ends Next Literature Grows Interesting Rich One Thing Two Years Peasants Really Interesting Get Rich Heroin Poppies Afghan Dubai

Author:Bruce Sterling

“I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.”

People Thinking Trying Literature Causes Can Do Pay Attention One Thing Son Pay Attention Your Son

Author:Richard Ford

“One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

Said Past Poetry Literature One Thing Poet Criticism They Said

Author:Philip Larkin

“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.”

Would Be Literature One Thing Metaphor Employment Simile

Author:Ogden Nash

“It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.”

Ifs World Should Mean Lasts Literature One Thing Drink Shoes Globalization Soda Last Place Homogeneity

Author:Benjamin Moser

“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”

Heart Literature Hell One Thing Gates Hiding Hateful Gates Of Hell

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”

Two Science Literature Sides Technology One Thing Two Things Two Sides

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.”

Ifs Looks Joy Literature Loses One Thing Danger Artificial No Point

Author:T.C. Boyle