Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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 is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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