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E M Forster Quotes

Ah, but you see, I didn’t want to be fair Picture Quote #1

We may divide characters into flat and round Picture Quote #1

How few writers can prostitute all their powers! Picture Quote #1

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider Picture Quote #1

One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding Picture Quote #1

English literature is a flying fish Picture Quote #1

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The strong are so stupid Picture Quote #1

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be Picture Quote #1

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves Picture Quote #1

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return Picture Quote #1

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line Picture Quote #1

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer Picture Quote #1

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy Picture Quote #1

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something Picture Quote #1

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet Picture Quote #1

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote Picture Quote #1

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I suggest that 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 Picture Quote #1

There’s nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end Picture Quote #1

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt Picture Quote #1

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value Picture Quote #1

Is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends Picture Quote #1

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work Picture Quote #1

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Ah, but you see, I didn’t want to be fair (E M Forster Quotes) We may divide characters into flat and round (E M Forster Quotes) How few writers can prostitute all their powers! (E M Forster Quotes) There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider (E M Forster Quotes) One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding (E M Forster Quotes) English literature is a flying fish (E M Forster Quotes) The strong are so stupid (E M Forster Quotes) For you cannot have gentility without paying for it (E M Forster Quotes) 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 (E M Forster Quotes) I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be (E M Forster Quotes) I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends (E M Forster Quotes) 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 (E M Forster Quotes) One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves (E M Forster Quotes) Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return (E M Forster Quotes) The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance (E M Forster Quotes) 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 (E M Forster Quotes) The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot (E M Forster Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line (E M Forster Quotes) There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer (E M Forster Quotes) Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy (E M Forster Quotes) Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something (E M Forster Quotes) 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 Quotes) What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote (E M Forster Quotes) I suggest that 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 Quotes) There’s nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end (E M Forster Quotes) All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt (E M Forster Quotes) Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value (E M Forster Quotes) Is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends (E M Forster Quotes) Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work (E M Forster Quotes)

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