Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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My 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.
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