E. M. Forster quotes - page 4

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. (E. M. Forster)
Unless we remember we cannot understand. View quote
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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? View quote
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made. View quote
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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. View quote
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. View quote
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. (E. M. Forster)
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. View quote
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run. View quote
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair. View quote
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. View quote
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. View quote
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. View quote
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. View quote
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. (E. M. Forster)
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. View quote
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. View quote
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. View quote
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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted. View quote
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