Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTERThe armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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 main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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