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.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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