You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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