But 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.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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We move between two darknesses.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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