Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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