E. M. Forster quotes - page 7

Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it. (E. M. Forster)
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. View quote
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. View quote
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. View quote
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness. View quote
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. View quote
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. View quote
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. 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, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse. (E. M. Forster)
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. View quote
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. View quote
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer. View quote
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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. View quote
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. View quote
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Democracy is not a beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent it deserves our support. View quote
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes. View quote
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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. View quote
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand. View quote
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them. (E. M. Forster)
... there are shadows because there are hills. View quote
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Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep. View quote
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While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea. View quote
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It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. View quote
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