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E. M. Forster has 346 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on…
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For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay…
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The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes…
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I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is…
— Luc Ferrari
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Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
— Joel Hodgson
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And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up…
— Archie Shepp
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I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
— Stephen Dorff
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Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul…
— Michelle Malkin
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I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.
— Richard Farnsworth
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What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
— Steve Lacy
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When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil…
— Lou Reed
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
— Steven Spielberg
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