The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERThe emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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 of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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I 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.
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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 must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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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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