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A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every typ...  
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something e...   Poetry
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look ...  
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs...  
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books ...  
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best s...  
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represen...  
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.   Faith
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?  
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and t...  
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them ...  
I have been racking my brains and can find no reply to this very reaso...  
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the p...  
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we...  
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my frien...  
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools...  
It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is th...  
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice...  
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.  
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.  
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got throug...  
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the ...  
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the ...  
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not histori...  
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and...  
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for ...  
They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and u...  
This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and...  
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can o...   Art
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one...  
Unless we remember we cannot understand.  
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coa...  
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and onl...  
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away...  
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to hav...  
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man...  
Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.  
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material univ...   Art
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.