E. M. Forster Quotes
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.
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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
