Controversial Sayings
214 sayings found from the Modern era from 214 authors
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All I am is literature, and I am not able to be anything else.
I have not lost my faith. I have lost my church.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
The object of power is power.
Most human beings are dead, in fact, though they may not know it.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
I have seen the future and it is wireless.
That's the whole burden of this novel—the loss of certainties.
He who awaits much can expect little.
Vitamin C is the most important of all vitamins.
Don't talk to me about justice. I'm a man of letters, not a judge.
I dislike everything that is not in good taste, and good taste is simply the art of being able to live with bad taste.
The West has been systematically destroying the culture of the East, and it is a matter of shame that we have allowed it to happen.
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
I hate the world and almost everything in it.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!
After a certain point, there is no return. This point has to be reached.