Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTERThere are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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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