Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERI believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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