literature

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion__ den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can__ get free of them and that__ what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I__e been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there__ a story. And that__ what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I__ in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

Your head is a lit chamber.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Now that we are all so smart, we don__ easily find resolutions.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It__ perceived as an accolade to be published as a __iterary_ writer, but, actually, it__ pompous and it__ fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I__ always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else__ face.