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.
E. M. FORSTERDo we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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