Paul de Man Quotes
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
Quotes to Explore
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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I played at LSU stadium a few times, and things were rowdy and fans were yelling things. In the SEC, the quarterback is going to get harassed in those big stadiums. But I don't know if I've ever played in a place where a team had reason to dislike me.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
