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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTER

Brave Coward Hurtbrave People Rather
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTER

Feed Long Nothing Run Shape Some Spoon Teach
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
E. M. FORSTER

Art Believe Internal Material Object Only Opinion Order Posses Universe Work
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Better Only Science Sympathy
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.
E. M. FORSTER

Beyond Death Differ Live Nothing Nothingness Own People Shall
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.
E. M. FORSTER

Accomplishment Intention Judge Once Shall Told
You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTER

Confuse Important Impressive
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTER

Go Instrument Learn Life Long Must Performance Public Violin
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. FORSTER

Anything Define Effective Else Final Friend Novel Test Tet
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Always Cause Creative Greater Represent Writer
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTER

Kingdom Music World
… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTER

Hill Shadow
It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
E. M. FORSTER

Beautiful Embankment Fastening Hill Opposite Pinch Pleasant Road Tree Unfamiliar Wide
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTER

Know Say See Think What
Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
E. M. FORSTER

Mysterious The Time
I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
E. M. FORSTER

Attempt Can Difficult Easy Entice Only Relation

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

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