"It is now only in letters I write……" — E. M. Forster
"It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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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…
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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,…
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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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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Amusing Quotes
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
— David Bailey
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
— Aesop
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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