Hermann Hesse Quotes
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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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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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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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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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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History and geology show what an eyeblink it’s been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.
