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.
From E. M. Forster
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
I am certainly an ought and not a must.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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