It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.


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The girls were dead-dog excited. We're a little bit worn out but excited, too. We've been close in t...
DAVE FORSTER
A lot better to play like this and win compared to last year. And we hope to carry over the way we s...
DAVE FORSTER
The score was the same, but almost everything else was completely different,
JOHN FORSTER
It's just a transition period. April can still bring some (snowy) stuff here when it gets pretty col...
GARY FORSTER
It's so empowering for that to happen under the supervision of young adults who aren't their parents...
GARY FORSTER
Good camps fulfill a parent's number one concern -- safety -- while supplying experiences and lesson...
GARY FORSTER
What exactly constitutes an emergency in a modelling agency? Two girls fighting to death with a hair...
KATE FORSTER
Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth,...
GREG FORSTER
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for...
E. M. FORSTER
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
E. M. FORSTER
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our d...
E. M. FORSTER
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the ...
E. M. FORSTER
History develops, art stands still.
E. M. FORSTER
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTER
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTER
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. FORSTER
We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
E. M. FORSTER
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in...
E. M. FORSTER
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. FORSTER
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to l...
E. M. FORSTER
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. FORSTER
Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. FORSTER
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in...
E. M. FORSTER
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. FORSTER
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. FORSTER
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...
E. M. FORSTER
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should ...
E. M. FORSTER
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an...
E. M. FORSTER
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTER
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat...
E. M. FORSTER
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTER
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter...
E. M. FORSTER
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d...
E. M. FORSTER
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ...
E. M. FORSTER
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil...
E. M. FORSTER
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves...
E. M. FORSTER
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people...
E. M. FORSTER
Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. FORSTER
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde...
E. M. FORSTER
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr...
E. M. FORSTER
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
E. M. FORSTER
Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t...
E. M. FORSTER
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
E. M. FORSTER