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E. M. Forster Quotes

E. M. Forster quotes about life

English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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E. M. Forster quote: "Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us..."
Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. E. M. Forster
The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!"
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life! E. M. Forster
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. 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. E. M. Forster
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one..."
Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy..."
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you..."
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you..."
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we..."
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand..."
Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand..."
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. E. M. Forster
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. E. M. Forster

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