For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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