How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERSo I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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