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" The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. "

E. M. Forster

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Path

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" How can I know what I think till I see what I say? "

" People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. "

" One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. "

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Things

Money

" One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "

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

" Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. "

" I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. "

" We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. "

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

" History develops, art stands still. "

" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "

" We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. "

" So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. "

" No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. "

" But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. "

" Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. "

" I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. "

" Love is always being given where it is not required. "

" Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. "

" I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. "

E. M. Forster

Experience

Women

" We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. "

" Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. "

" Reverence is fatal to literature. "

" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "

" There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. "

" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

" 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 up with people, being able to stand things. "

" Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. "

" The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. "