E. M. Forster Quotes
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
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I do a lot of ceramics.
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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
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I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
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..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
