Money pads the edges of things.
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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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