Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
E. M. FORSTERI 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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