“The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything”
Thomas Nixon Carver
“When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is just perfection and nothing to fill the air.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side”
Mark Twain
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
Oscar Wilde
“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”
Belva Lockwood
“Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal,”
Carlos Fuentes