How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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