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. FORSTERAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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