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. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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