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" Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. "

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" I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. "

" Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. "

" The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. "

" People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. "

" One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "

" One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. "

" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "

" There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. "

" We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. "

" Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. "

" Reverence is fatal to literature. "

" No one is India. "

" What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? "

" Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. "

" I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. "

" History develops, art stands still. "

" The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. "

" At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes. "

" The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. "

" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "

" Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. "

" For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. "

" Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. "

" It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. "

" I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. "

" Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. "

" Ideas are fatal to caste. "

" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

" Nonsense and beauty have close connections. "