So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTEROne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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