All E. M. Forster Quotes
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. Forster
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. Forster
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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