One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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