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.
E. M. FORSTERMoney pads the edges of things.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The 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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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