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The difference between an achiever and a loser is,An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets. — Akash Lakhotia
Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
— Chris Campanioni
Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.
— Anthea Syrokou
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
— Oscar Wilde
If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.
— The Prolific Penman
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.
— David Lodge
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
— Milan Kundera
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.
— Robert Dessaix
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
— Carlos Fuentes
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
— Arlaina Tibensky
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete
— John Steinbeck
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
— Patrick White
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
Life will be empty without great stories to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life every now and then becomes literature ... as if life had been made and not happened.
— Norman Maclean
Literature gives great light and great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
— Laura Esquivel
Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.
— Lara Biyuts
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
— Fernando Botero
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
— Rafael Moneo
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law
— John Bunyan
Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
— Luigi Pirandello
The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.
— F. Sionil Jose
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
— Meridel Le Sueur
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
In greatness, life and death merge.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
— F.R. Leavis
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
— John Banville
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
— William Stafford
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
— Philip Larkin
Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.
— Richard Brookhiser
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
— James Joyce
They are both spectacular, Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic
Life is a rich literature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.
— Greg McVicker
Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
— Elliot Ackerman
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
— Duff Cooper
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
— Leopold Von Ranke
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) — Robert Southey
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.
— Marcel Theroux
Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
— Mary McCarthy
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
— Randy Thornhorn
Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone.
— Rabih Alameddine
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
— F. Sionil Jose
In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.
— R.M. Engelhardt
Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nothing in life comes easy and without a price. The trick is learning to never give up.
— Michael Alexander Beas
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
— Michael Cunningham
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Pay attention, and use your imagination.
— R.M. Engelhardt
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
— Franz Grillparzer
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
— Yukio Mishima
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
— F. Sionil Jose
What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention? — Jeanette Winterson
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
— Sei Shonagon
Change for someone today and tomorrow you will hear them say, "You are not the same.
— Akash Lakhotia
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.
— John A. Vanek
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
— Ellen Glasgow
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
— Jerome K. Jerome
There is always the question why And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.
— Marcel Proust
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
— Paula Fox
Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar.
— Terry Tempest Williams