Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
E. M. FORSTERIt is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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