Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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