E. M. Forster Quotes
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
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CLINTON: Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, 'Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.' Well, it did collapse.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
