But What I Do I Do Because

The Purpose Of Education Is To Fit Us For Life In A Civilised Community, And It Seems To Follow From The Subjects We Study That The Two Most Important Things In Civilised Life Are Art And Science.

Keep Away From Physicians. It Is All Probing And Guessing And Pretending With Them. They Leave It To Nature To Cure In Her Own Time, But They Take The Credit. As Well As Very Fat Fees.

Fumbling For A Word Is Everybody's Birthright.

I Don't Write Out Of Fear. I Write Out Of A Strong Urge To Meet Death On Its Own Eternal Terms, Because The Fact Is That If You Write As Little As A Page Of Prose-even Bad Prose-that Is Eternal.

The Trouble Began With Forster. After Him It Was Considered Ungentlemanly To Write More Than Five Or Six Novels.