"Characters must not brood too long. They must……" — E. M. Forster
"Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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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…
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More Brood Quotes
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
— Isaac Asimov
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
— Richard Sibbes
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended,…
— Kate Chopin
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
— Thomas Head Raddall
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When…
— Eknath Easwaran
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is…
— Charles Dickens
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the…
— Robinson Jeffers
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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while…
— Alexander Smith
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