The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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.
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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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