One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTEROne grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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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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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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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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