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.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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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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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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