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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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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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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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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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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I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.
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John McCain and I, and our camps, are working together to get John McCain elected.
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I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city
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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.
