Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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