All E. M. Forster Quotes
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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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.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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