If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERThe king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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