I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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 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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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So 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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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