One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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There 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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