… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTERPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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