I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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.
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.
They had nothing in common but the English language.
She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
History develops, art stands still.
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