The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTERI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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