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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.


Edward M. Forster

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P.C. CAST Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I'm a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom.
CASSIE SCERBO How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
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WILLIAM STAFFORD Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dea...
DAWN POWELL I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, ...
CHRISTINA MILIAN Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
FRANK DEFORD Great is the benefit of booklearning; for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path...
THE PRIMARY CHRONICLE I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinati...
KEVIN KWAN It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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SUZANNE SOMERS When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets me...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire
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NEIL GAIMAN Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA Hope is the light that flickers and burns eternally, when you remain steadfast with faith.
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ETHAN CANIN When you go to bed at night are you happy with how you spent your day? When you awaken in the mornin...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When the vigilance and dignity of the nations are at sleep, it is the waking and working time of tyr...
MARIANA FULGER Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
VANCE JOY We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive a...
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KEVIN J. ANDERSON There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay pile...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping ...
ANNE M. MULCAHY Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in lo...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY That night which grew stems on my body not to depart, I stopped inventing caresses, my knees are ris...
ANCA MIHAELA BRUMA Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, wi...
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DJ STEVE LAWLER The holy books of all religions are powerful books,not because they are religious books,but because ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
BEAR GRYLLS Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -...
IRVING BERLIN Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
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LOIS LOWRY This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
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F. JOHNSON He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float up...
ANATOLE FRANCE The salesman left and that night Storm Lake had a fire. Harold drove it to the fire.
DENNIS KESSLER I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that co...
SAYED KASHUA I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own li...
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As we wave our goodbyes,
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KHALED HOSSEINI My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
EDDIE TRUNK And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a tota...
YANNI There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separ...
EULA BISS I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
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CHLOE SEVIGNY I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it ...
EDWARD M. FORSTER Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something...
EDWARD M. FORSTER Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; ...
EDWARD M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
EDWARD M. FORSTER Unless we remember we cannot understand.
EDWARD M. FORSTER Ideas are fatal to caste.
EDWARD M. FORSTER Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage ou...
EDWARD M. FORSTER Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when...
EDWARD M. FORSTER The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the ...
EDWARD M. FORSTER I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.
TONY VINCENT When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.
SULLY TARNISH I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to ma...
MATT DILLON I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.
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E. M. FORSTER As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
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E. M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
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E. M. FORSTER A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy d...
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E. M. FORSTER Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is neg...
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E. M. FORSTER At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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E. M. FORSTER I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...
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E. M. FORSTER I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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E. M. FORSTER Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order...
E. M. FORSTER We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a n...
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E. M. FORSTER Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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E. M. FORSTER There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. FORSTER Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. FORSTER Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of ma...
E. M. FORSTER Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. FORSTER Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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E. M. FORSTER . . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behi...
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E. M. FORSTER Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the ...
E. M. FORSTER Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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E. M. FORSTER Only connect.
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E. M. FORSTER It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels,...
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E. M. FORSTER Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that shoul...
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E. M. FORSTER A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
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E. M. FORSTER The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. FORSTER The best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly
E. M. FORSTER Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. FORSTER If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. FORSTER This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and convinces me I have achieved.
E. M. FORSTER You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, 'It's better to be f...
E. M. FORSTER But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to mer...
E. M. FORSTER Unless we remember we cannot understand
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E. M. FORSTER The so-called white races are really pinko-grey
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E. M. FORSTER I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTER At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes
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E. M. FORSTER Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's
E. M. FORSTER Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--no...
E. M. FORSTER You can transmute love, muddle it, ignore it... but you can never pull it out of you...
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E. M. FORSTER Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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E. M. FORSTER It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. FORSTER Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. FORSTER One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTER Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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E. M. FORSTER Reverence is fatal to literature.
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E. M. FORSTER No one is India.
E. M. FORSTER The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herse...
E. M. FORSTER I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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E. M. FORSTER The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. FORSTER Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTER The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. FORSTER No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. FORSTER Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
E. M. FORSTER At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
E. M. FORSTER The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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E. M. FORSTER The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a p...
E. M. FORSTER One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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EDWARD M. WOLFE Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly fli...
EDWARD M. LERNER One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can...
EDWARD M. LERNER When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psych...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things abou...
EDWARD M. KENNEDY I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or...
EDWARD M. KENNEDY The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
EDWARD M. KENNEDY Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
EDWARD M. KENNEDY Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii,...
EDWARD M. LERNER History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics a...
EDWARD M. LERNER Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cau...
EDWARD M. LERNER I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in ...
EDWARD M. PURCELL What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-...
EDWARD M. LERNER Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Be...
EDWARD M. LERNER The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporat...
EDWARD M. LERNER I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new e...
EDWARD M. PURCELL It's called the Infinity Effect.
EDWARD M. WOLFE Families, by and large, like most groups, resist change. If one member of a family wants to move awa...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dep...
EDWARD M. LERNER Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example,...
EDWARD M. LERNER The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient...
EDWARD M. LERNER What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
EDWARD M. LERNER A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, th...
EDWARD M. LERNER I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a f...
EDWARD M. LERNER The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, mu...
EDWARD M. PURCELL To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discover...
EDWARD M. PURCELL Is the music broke, Mommy?
EDWARD M. WOLFE This administration has broken faith with the people of America. They have squandered the immense go...
SENATOR EDWARD M KENNEDY Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ...
E.M. FORSTER And Englishmen like posing as gods.
E.M. FORSTER The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it li...
MARC FORSTER Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.
JOHN FORSTER We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav...
E.M. FORSTER Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E.M. FORSTER It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, mu...
E.M. FORSTER Only connect!
E.M. FORSTER How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
E.M. FORSTER Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult jour...
JOHN FORSTER The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but...
E.M. FORSTER You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.
ROBERT FORSTER I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lov...
MARGARET FORSTER Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to wo...
ROBERT FORSTER Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily,...
E.M. FORSTER In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...
E.M. FORSTER God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.
MARGARET FORSTER It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E.M. FORSTER