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| When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavours of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost. | Hitopadesa | 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. | Horace Bushnell | 1802-1876, American Congregational Minister, Theologian |
| What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. | Horatio Bottomley | American Politician |
| I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. | Howard Stern | 1954-, American TV Talk Show Host, Singer |
| The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. | Hugh Blair | British Poet |
| A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. | Hugh Maclennan | 1907-1990, Canadian Novelist, Essayist |
| We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. | Hugo Ball | 1886-1927, German Dadaist Poet |
| It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. | Ian Mcewan | 1948-, British Author |
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| Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. | Iris Murdoch | 1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher |
| If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets. | Irving Layton | 1912-, Canadian Poet |
| I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. | Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992, Russian-born American Author |
| No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. | Isaac Babel | 1894-1941, Jewish Writer |
| Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil. | Isidore Ducasse, Comte De Lautreamont | 1846-1870, French Author, Poet |
| There is no robber worse than a bad book. | Italian Proverb | Sayings of Italian Origin |
| A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
| Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
| The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
| When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
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| People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me. | J. August Strindberg | 1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet |
| There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. | J. Donald Adams | |
| I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. | J. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973, British Novelist, Scholar |
| Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. | J. Swartz | |
| Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset. | Jack Herbert | |
| To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. | Jacob Bronowski | 1908-1974, British Scientist, Author |
| When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. | James Baldwin | 1924-1987, American Author |
| Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. | James Bennis | |
| Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. | James Connolly | |
| The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. | James F. Cooper | 1789-1851, American Novelist |
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| Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. | James Joyce | 1882-1941, Irish Author |
| People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. | James Randi | |
| Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read. | James T. Mccay | |
| I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. | James Thurber | 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator |
| If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. | Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker |
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| When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. | Jean De La BruyLre | 1645-1696, French Classical Writer |
| There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. | Jean De La BruyLre | 1645-1696, French Classical Writer |
| Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury. | Jean De La Fontaine | 1621-1695, French Poet |
| We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist |
| Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist |
| It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. | Jean Paul Richter | 1763-1825, German Novelist |
| Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. | Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher |
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