Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTEROne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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