We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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