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“Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.”

Past Form Literature Emotional Intellectual Creeds Castes

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.”

Source: Road to Science Fiction 2

“There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.”

Way Inspirational Art Past Literature Risk Errors Excellent Predictions

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”

Ifs Way Mind Today Past Happiness Joy Literature Realizing Lines Tomorrow Wave Refuse Loyalty Withdrawal

Author:Andre Gide

“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

Past Life Is Joy Literature Our Lives Sorrow Flash Woven Radiant

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.”

People Past Found Literature Core Viewers

Author:Bob Schieffer

“The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.”

Knows Men Stills Past Literature Half He Man Needed Safe Decided Seven Gray Diamond Apartment Midnight

Book:The Fourth Protocol

Source: The Fourth Protocol

“I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.”

Looks Past Literature Imagination Products Evening

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.”

Trying Stills Hands Age Past Spirit Literature Process Imagination Errors Busy Various Graves Clock Complexity Historian Observing Measuring

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.”

Writing Kind Different Past Used Poetry Literature Fiction Teach Reader Critical Theoretical Writing Fiction

Author:Nicholas Royle

“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

“But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.”

People Want Art Feelings Truth Past Order Found Literature Practice Exciting Alcohol Sensations

Book:After Many a Summer

Source: After Many a Summer

“But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.”

World Children Past Certain Time Literature Language Sick Dancing Tunes Cracked Dreary Sick Children

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales