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To trust people is a luxury in...

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Life never gives us what we wa...

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

I'd far rather leave a thought...

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

I am an unspeakable of the Osc...

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

While her lips talked culture,...

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffe...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to ...

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Some reviews give pain. This i...

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Why children?' he asked. 'Why ...

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

It's miles worse for you than ...

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

Edward Forster 502 quotes

A happy ending was imperative....

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The traveller who has gone to ...

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Our easiest approach to a defi...

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

I have said that each aspect o...

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The advance of regret can be s...

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say 'yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The kingdom of music is not th...

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

I think - I think - I think ho...

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

It is impossible to foretell t...

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.

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There was something better in ...

There was something better in life than this rubВ­bish, if only he could get to itЂ'loveЂ'nobilityЂ'big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

Edward Forster 502 quotes

I know by experience that the ...

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....