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Small: The worlds made up of individuals who dont want to be heroes
"The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes"
Brian Moore, Novelist
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Small: The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes
"The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes"
Brian Moore, Novelist
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Small: If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience
"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience"
Brian Moore, Novelist
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Small: As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country,
"As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives"
Brian Moore, Novelist
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Small: And now we have the formalities over, well have the National Anthems
"And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems"
Brian Moore, Novelist
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Small: After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0
"After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0"
Brian Moore, Novelist
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Small: What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love
"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Theres no money in poetry, but then theres no poetry in money, either
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he i
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat
"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors
"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Never use the word audience. The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to m
"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained
"In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: If theres no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: If I were a girl, Id despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them
"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers
"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peo
"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is v
"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good"
Robert Graves, Novelist
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Small: Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone
"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge ones outlook it only confirms ones idea that one is unique
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought
"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Language is a mixture of statement and evocation
"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Ireland is a great country to die or be married in
"Ireland is a great country to die or be married in"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk
"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: I think the main thing, dont you, is to keep the show on the road
"I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: I became, and remain, my characters close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot fe
"I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat
"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experie
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Education is not so important as people think
"Education is not so important as people think"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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Small: Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting
"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
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