Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERDo not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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