Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTERWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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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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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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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