The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTERIt was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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One 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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