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Up Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
- In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up…
- 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…
- Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting…
- Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
- It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look…
- I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the…
- Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She…
- 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…
- Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want…
- Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
- 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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