"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily……" — E. M. Forster
"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave."
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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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More Chaotic Quotes
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin
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There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in…
— Anthony Bourdain
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
— Jackie Chan
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of…
— Kate Chopin
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I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is…
— Deepak Chopra
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and…
— Robert Frost
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You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The…
— James Mattis
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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great…
— Gerhard Richter
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
— Albert Einstein
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Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely…
— Steven Weinberg
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