It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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