E. M. Forster Short Quotes

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Lord I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.

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Yes – oh dear yes – the novel tells a story.

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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.

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Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

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Truth is a flower in whose neighborhood others must wither.

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Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.

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The sick had no rights…one could lie to them remorselessly.

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

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It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

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Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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All men are equal—all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

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Ecstasy cannot last, but can carve a channel for something lasting.

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American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum.

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It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

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Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.

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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.

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God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

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He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

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It is a period between two wars—the long week-end it has been called.

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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

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