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.
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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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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