"We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live."

-- Matthew Specktor

#Literature Quotes #Shows Quotes #Humane Quotes

“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”
“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

Source : "Schoenberg‎". Book by Merle Armitage, p. 143, 1971.
“I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.”
“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.”
“Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.”
“The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler”
“He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.”
“The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.”

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