At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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