Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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