Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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