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. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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