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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.
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