How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTEROne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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.
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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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