The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTERYou can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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