E. M. Forster Quotes
An English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
(1879 - 1970)
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A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
[Poetry]
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
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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.
[America]
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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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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.
[Beauty]
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Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
[Luck]
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