The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTERTo make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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We move between two darknesses.
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