The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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