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Time Quotes by E. M. Forster
- This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.…
- Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
- Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a…
- 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,…
- School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world…
- It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of…
- Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
- Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- 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…
- As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
- But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really…
- Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
- 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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