I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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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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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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It 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.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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