We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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