Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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 has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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