The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
E. M. FORSTERThere’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We move between two darknesses.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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