The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTERBut it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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