Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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