Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERInside 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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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