When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTEROne always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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