If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTEROne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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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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