Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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 believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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