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“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

Thinking Art Able Earth Literature Heaven Chance Stupid Skills Art Is Atheist Foolish Fabric Heaven And Earth Oysters

Author:Anatole France

“I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.”

Mean Book Literature Stupid Sells Making Money

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.”

“...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.”

Mean I Can Literature Fiction Stupid Fool Let Me Writing Fiction Reading Fiction

Author:John Waters

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

People Ifs Bigs Eye America Literature Sound White Stupid Wind Quiet Fortunate Complacency Hurricanes Protestants Serene

Author:Norman Mailer

“The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.”

Two Literature Fiction Stupid Genre Streams Distinction Splits Pernicious Dichotomy Feuds

Author:George R. R. Martin

“In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.”

Men Facts Funny Science Literature Stupid Explanation Statistics

Author:Dave Barry

“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”

Ifs Would Be Literature Deals Stupid Trust Husband Foolish

Author:H. L. Mencken

“'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.”

Stills Enough Literature Nice Stupid Being True Falsehood Mischief Blunt Bluntness

Book:An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”

Made Literature Race Mistake Worst Stupid Racism Prejudice Anti Semitism

Author:Ezra Pound

“Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.”

Ifs Thinking Book Ideas Shows Kids Able Literature Stupid Ignorance Trust Bliss Trust Yourself Don't Trust Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!”

People Children Long Stills Lying Literature Enjoy Sun Stupid Summer Silly Weather My Children Long Day Silly People

Author:Danielle Steel

“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”

Feels Kind Has Beens Jobs Lying Dies Literature Stupid Down And Silly Chasers

Book:Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945

Source: Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945

“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”

Writing Literature Written Stupid Discipline Stupidity Dishonesty Written Word

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

Book Reading Literature Stupid Civilization Silent Dumb Speculation Crippled Carrier Lighthouse Modern Civilization Standstill Advanced Civilization Literature History Studying Literature

Book:The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

Source: The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

“I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.”

Thinking Would Be Literature Stupid Foolish Irrational

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Reason Play Used Literature Stuff Stupid Theater Intelligent Stupidity Really Stupid

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE