Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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