All E. M. Forster Quotes
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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