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.
E. M. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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People 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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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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