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.
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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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 so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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