All Quotes By Tag: Literature-quotes
“Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.”
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“God is a cloud from which rain fell.”
“Devil and God – two sides of the same face.”
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)… ‘I spoke to three scholars,’ [the character says ‘at last.’] …two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]’ …I can see that he’s excited. [narrator]’ …Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a ‘literary’ writer based on this quote. A ‘literary’ author knows that a character’s excitement should be ‘shown’ in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator’s commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the ‘I can see that he’s excited’ sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho … Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), ‘a remote human possibility.’ He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”
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“Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.”
“I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.”
“My ideas would burn barbarian stars, topple sectarian gods and raise up empires of liberty and truth.”
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“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”
“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”
“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”