"The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage."

-- Will Self

#Art Quotes #Long Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects.”
“The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (1926). “Letters to Judd, an American Workingman”
“What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.”

Source : Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com
“Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.”
“Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.”
“You Can't Lose Something You Never Had”
“The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.”
“Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

You may also like:

Iain Sinclair
Writer
J. G. Ballard
Novelist
Jonathan Coe
Novelist
Julie Burchill
Writer
Martin Amis
Novelist
Ralph Steadman
Cartoonist
Rod Liddle
Journalist
Salman Rushdie
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist