The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTERThere are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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.
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