Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. Barbara Kingsolver behavecreationempathy Change image and share on social
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. Elfriede Jelinek awarddeservedraft share on social
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. John Morley dangerousdeceiveliterature Change image and share on social
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn condenseexperiencegeneration Change image and share on social
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil. Octavio Paz abroadbearcarry Change image and share on social
Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin. Sam Kean batterycellcontact Change image and share on social
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. Kay Redfield Jamison alivecareerclear share on social
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way. Kay Redfield Jamison bipolarcombinecompliance share on social
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Ambrose Bierce bonegivehope Change image and share on social
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce litigationmachinepig Change image and share on social