The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank 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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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