#liter

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? ↗

— Eugene Kennedy

#enjoy #life #literally #moments #nothing

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#also #became #board #broad #called

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible. ↗

— Joe Klein

#american #anonymity #anonymous #back #bible

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#clear #cold #dead #like #literature

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#body #fact #freedom #himself #humankind

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. ↗

— Paul de Man

#certain #critical #denies #even #literary

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#bad #effectively #enthusiasts #literary #more

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument. ↗

— John Searle

#apply #argument #cases #clear #does

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#courage

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#courage