I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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