literary

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d697010	All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.	literary	Virginia Woolf
76f4f28	"When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."	women inspirational literary historical	David McCullough
ca8cc1e	James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. [...] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. [...] James in his novels is like the best French critics in maintaining a point of view, a view-point untouched by the parasite idea. He is the most intelligent man of his generation.	writing literary ideas	T.S. Eliot
331d32d	I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.	literary crime	Richard Ford
96b8457	It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time, and they were charmed by it once more, and by one another. Which seems only right and expectable for married people. They caught a glimpse of the person they fell in love with, and who sustained life. For some, that vision must never dim - as is true of me. But it was odd that our parents should catch their glimpse, and have frustration, anxiety and worry pass away like clouds dispersing after a storm, refind their best selves, but for that glimpse to happen just before landing our family in ruin.	marriage literary crime	Richard Ford
96fd4c2	Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.	good life truth misunderstood spooky depth book literary ethics characters crime lonely sad novel evil	Rebecca McNutt
b452748	"Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroes, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd." --	war history religion averroës ibn-rushd fatwa terrorism literary memoir free-speech secularism	Salman Rushdie
0d7e5d7	The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.	literary revolution	Christopher Bram
cc3b529	"Though I am sometimes reluctant to admit it, there really	christianity religion king-james-bible literary	Christopher Hitchens
dbac892	Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside for a ball. His tight-fitting house dress was bunched up high on his chubby thighs, exposing olive drab underwear. I see London, I see France, I see a crazy dictator's underpants! Chase's thoughts raced.	fiction espionage panama literary thriller spy	Cole Alpaugh

d697010

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

literary

Virginia Woolf

76f4f28

"When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

women inspirational literary historical

David McCullough

ca8cc1e

James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. [...] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. [...] James in his novels is like the best French critics in maintaining a point of view, a view-point untouched by the parasite idea. He is the most intelligent man of his generation.

writing literary ideas

T.S. Eliot

331d32d

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

literary crime

Richard Ford

96b8457

It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time, and they were charmed by it once more, and by one another. Which seems only right and expectable for married people. They caught a glimpse of the person they fell in love with, and who sustained life. For some, that vision must never dim - as is true of me. But it was odd that our parents should catch their glimpse, and have frustration, anxiety and worry pass away like clouds dispersing after a storm, refind their best selves, but for that glimpse to happen just before landing our family in ruin.

marriage literary crime

Richard Ford

96fd4c2

Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.

good life truth misunderstood spooky depth book literary ethics characters crime lonely sad novel evil

Rebecca McNutt

b452748

"Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroes, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd." --

war history religion averroës ibn-rushd fatwa terrorism literary memoir free-speech secularism

Salman Rushdie

0d7e5d7

The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

literary revolution

Christopher Bram

cc3b529

"Though I am sometimes reluctant to admit it, there really

christianity religion king-james-bible literary

Christopher Hitchens

dbac892

Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside for a ball. His tight-fitting house dress was bunched up high on his chubby thighs, exposing olive drab underwear. I see London, I see France, I see a crazy dictator's underpants! Chase's thoughts raced.

fiction espionage panama literary thriller spy

Cole Alpaugh