I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...
If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
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.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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.
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.
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.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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