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.
E. M. FORSTERInside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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