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.
E. M. FORSTERMy temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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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 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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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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