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.
E. M. FORSTEROne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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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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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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