We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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 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.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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