Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERThere are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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I 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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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