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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.
– Oscar Wilde

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  1. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
  2. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
  3. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. – Jean Cocteau
  4. Life is just packed full of memories, the more memories you create, the richer your life becomes !J Moulds – Tom Evans
  5. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  6. Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it. – Sunday Adelaja
  7. I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. – Oscar Wilde
  8. Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread. – Oscar Wilde
  9. It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of. – Tracy Rees
  10. I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows. – James C Dobson
  11. Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  12. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. – Oscar Wilde
  13. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
  14. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  15. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  16. Life has always poppies in her hands. – Oscar Wilde
  17. We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
  18. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde
  19. It is rarely in the world’s history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world. – Oscar Wilde
  20. …art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator. – Oscar Wilde
  21. It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. – Oscar Wilde
  22. It is he who has broken the bond of marriage – not I. I only break its bondage. – Oscar Wilde
  23. Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. – Oscar Wilde
  24. I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
  25. To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. – Oscar Wilde
  26. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. – Oscar Wilde
  27. And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. – Oscar Wilde
  28. Well I won’t argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for. – Oscar Wilde
  29. Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. – Oscar Wilde
  30. Men always want to be a woman’s first love, -women want to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde
  31. God and other artists are always a little obscure….. – Oscar Wilde
  32. Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. – Oscar Wilde
  33. It was always once springtime in my heart. – Oscar Wilde
  34. I’m a man of simple tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde
  35. Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
  36. Men always want to be a woman`s first love – women like to be a man`s last romance. – Oscar Wilde
  37. Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty. – Oscar Wilde
  38. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. – Oscar Wilde
  39. America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. – Oscar Wilde
  40. I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde

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