Thomas Bulfinch Quotes

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Thomas Bulfinch

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• 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.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Deep
  • Literature
  • Curse

• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Question

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Literature
  • Enlightenment

• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Different
  • Literature

• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Literature
  • Distance
  • View

• If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Literature
  • Movies
  • Fame

• We've discussed that, we are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient but no date has yet been fixed.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Discussion
  • Visit
  • Convenient

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.

  

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  • Right
  • Track
  • Criticize

• For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Literature
  • Virtue
  • Promoters