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.
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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 must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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 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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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