How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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