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.
E. M. FORSTERThe emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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 you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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