She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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