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

-- E. M. Forster

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.”
“I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the time, but I wouldn't let her leave the house until she agreed. I've always been quite headstrong.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.”

Source : Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (1939). “The great illusion--now”
“I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.”
“Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.”
“Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.”
“A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.”

Source : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (2012). “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”, p.320, Routledge

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