Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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