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. FORSTERThe historian records, but the novelist creates.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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