Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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