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Thinking Quotes by E. M. Forster
- It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more…
- He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to…
- In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,…
- Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I…
- I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it…
- Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
- How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
- 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…
- Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the…
- I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
- Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
- 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…
- This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to…
- I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
- 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.
- 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…
- Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our…
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