Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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 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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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