4,370 Quotes About Literature

I'm not that woman that you usually see among the crowd.I'm another woman who lives alone between the walls of her room-- as simple as a white handkerchief --Without lipstick nor a bra...

in the morning,When Claude Monet waves to me from behind the sun I check some poems that I concealed under the pillowfearing that the wind will disperse them in the air like their predecessors And I take my way to you.

لو أتيت الآنكنت سأغطي كل نقطة مضئية في البيت كنت سأنقي العتمة كما ينقي الشجر الهواءالقمر نفسه لن يجرأ على الظهور بعد ذلكلو أتيتلأغمضت عيني وهمست لك أنرني الآن

It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human.

- وجمال عبد الناصر؟- إنه اليوم مُرشِد القذافي.

ما فائدة العقل في عالم لا معقول؟!

Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we were before we became who we are. He said that's why people love The Catcher in the Rye when they're teenagers, but fall out of love with it as adults. We're all Holden Caulfield at fifteen, but when we grow up we want to be Atticus Finch.

What a lot of things you use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.""…To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took's Son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.