E. M. Forster quotes - page 5

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. (E. M. Forster)
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. View quote
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. View quote
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. View quote
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. View quote
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Don't go fighting against the Spring. View quote
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her. View quote
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? View quote
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. View quote
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. View quote
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. (E. M. Forster)
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. View quote
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It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave. View quote
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. View quote
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. View quote
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Reverence is fatal to literature. View quote
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They had nothing in common but the English language. View quote
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History develops, art stands still. View quote
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. View quote
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At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards. View quote
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Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to. (E. M. Forster)
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. View quote
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I am certainly an ought and not a must. View quote
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Ideas are fatal to caste. View quote
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Nature pulls one way and human nature another. View quote
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