I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
E. M. FORSTERSpoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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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 we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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