Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTEROne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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