Proletarian Literature Quotes

#1. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Mao Zedong

#2. Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

Brenda Shaughnessy

#3. One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Anne Sexton

#4. An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

Harvey Cocks

#5. Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.

Madame De La Fayette

#6. Males approach with caution, first assessing whether the female has had anything to eat lately. If she looks well fed, the male has some hope of getting through the ordeal alive.

Amy Stewart

#7. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

William Gilmore Simms

#8. I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

Val Kilmer

#9. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

Blythe Danner

#11. I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Maya Angelou

#12. Sometimes magic sounds like tape.

The Amazing Johnathan

#13. A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

#14. The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy ... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

John Ruskin

#15. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle.

#16. I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

Sam Brownback