I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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