It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.
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FORSTER The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an... E. M. FORSTER Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. FORSTER Unless we remember we cannot understand. E. M. FORSTER We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat... E. M. FORSTER Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. FORSTER America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter... E. M. FORSTER There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d... E. M. FORSTER Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ... E. M. FORSTER Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil... E. M. FORSTER Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves... E. M. FORSTER I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people... E. M. FORSTER Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. FORSTER Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde... E. M. FORSTER Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr... E. M. FORSTER As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e... E. M. FORSTER Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t... E. M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. E. M. FORSTER Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when... E. M. FORSTER Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sp... E. M. FORSTER I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too,... E. M. FORSTER The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will ... E. M. FORSTER A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy d... E. M. FORSTER Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; ... E. M. FORSTER Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is neg... E. M. FORSTER The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. E. M. FORSTER