It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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We move between two darknesses.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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 main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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