So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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