#lit

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#both #complex #concrete #game #literature

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— Dean Inge

#favor #make #only #opinion #pass

Originality is undetected plagiarism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#astonishing #governed #how #little #mankind

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #flourishes #half #literature #trade

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#blessed #convictions #courage #enough #every

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#camera #front #girl #i #little