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.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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