The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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 grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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