Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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