Top 31 Literary Tradition Quotes
#1. Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#2. I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
Elena Ferrante
#3. Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
Joe Klein
#4. I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition ... .
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.
George Brandis
#7. The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.
Clive Sinclair
#8. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
Allegra Goodman
#9. Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
Mason Cooley
#10. Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
Ian McEwan
#11. For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.
Os Guinness
#12. We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.
Jeff Sessions
#13. The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period
Thomas L. Thompson
#14. Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
Harold Bloom
#16. I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?
Madeline Miller
#17. And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.
Dennis Miller
#18. In a relationship, believe me, it's important to have a clear past to secure a bright future.
Sajan Kc.
#20. If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.
Agatha Christie
#21. I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
Scott Kelly
#22. Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
Armstrong Williams
#23. The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW
Mark Sanborn
#24. My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
Christian De Duve
#25. I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
Gerhard Richter
#26. I do my own make-up a lot of the time, and I'm very involved in what I wear.
Jessie J.
#28. Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.
Richard Stanley
#29. Far from breaking with tradition, they understood the Great War and its aftermath in the light of tradition, believing, as did their literary and spiritual ancestors, that ours is a fallen world yet not a forsaken one.
Philip Zaleski
#30. Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Slobodan Milosevic
#31. I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.
John Piper
