Pastoral Resources

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

Remarks are not literature.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.