Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERThe king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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We move between two darknesses.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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