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Been Quotes by E. M. Forster
- It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling…
- Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star…
- 'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.
- In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked…
- She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went…
- A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like…
- All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am…
- Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
- England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
- The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us…
- For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
- Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving…
- It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
- There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
- George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw…
- It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is…
- He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the…
- I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of…
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