Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
LiteratureArtsCitizenshipDutyCulture To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
LiteratureDiscernmentTruth Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
ExperienceEducationLiteratureImpact 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.
PoetryLiteratureLanguageCreativityBasics The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
ReadingTelevisionLiteratureDisciplineIntellectual Growth I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
ExperienceArtLiterature The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
AdmirationChemistryViolenceDisillusionmentLiterature In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
LiteratureUtopiaBelongingConnection Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
