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Vote: | A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. |
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Vote: | A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. |
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Vote: | He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. |
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Vote: | Headlines twice the size of the events. |
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Vote: | Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. |
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Vote: | If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. |
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Vote: | One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. |
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Vote: | Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. |
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Vote: | The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. |
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Vote: | There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. |
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Vote: | We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. |
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Vote: | When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. |
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John Galsworthy (August 14 1867 – January 31, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906 - 1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.
Born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, Galsworthy attended Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister. However, he soon began to put his writing first, especially after forming a friendship with Joseph Conrad. His first play, The Silver Box (1906) became a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy. This remains by far his best-known work, but in his lifetime he published several other novels, including The Island Pharisees (1904) and many plays, the best-known of which include Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920). Much of Galsworthy's work contains social commentary, focusing especially on the British class system. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage furnishes another recurring theme in his work.
He was the first president of the International PEN.
John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour.
External links *The Forsyte Chronicles at eBooks@Adelaide
*Project Gutenberg e-texts by John Galsworthy
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