All E. M. Forster Quotes
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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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.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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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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