Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTERI 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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