There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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