Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Quote by Ellen Glasgow

Topics: Literature Quotes, Violence Quotes

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when...

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence...

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody...

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody...

All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward

All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue,...

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue,...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

Lawn as white as driven snow

Lawn as white as driven snow

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Literature is analysis after the event.

Literature is analysis after the event.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of...

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a...

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a...

Literature is my utopia

Literature is my utopia

The crown of literature is poetry.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of...

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of...