She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
E. M. FORSTERBooks have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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