E. M. Forster Quotes - Famous Quotes by E. M. Forster
Born: 1879-01-01
Died: 1970-06-07
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
- E. M. Forster
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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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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View"
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How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
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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 further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.
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Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
- E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
- E. M. Forster, Howards End
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
- E. M. Forster
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