QUOTES by E. M. Forster
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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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.
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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.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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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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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.
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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.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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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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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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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.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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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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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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