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.
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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