The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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