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E M Forster
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[The Englishman] has...
[The Englishman] has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or...
Logic! Good...
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Think before you...
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think creation's.
Failure or success...
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of...
The most successful...
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful...
The only books...
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our...
Faith, to my...
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as...
Creative writers are...
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Source:...
Two cheers for...
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits...
Happiness in the...
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true...
Curiosity is one...
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are...
Only connect the...
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in...
To make us...
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong...
I have only...
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me,...
One always tends...
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Source:...
Railway termini. ....
Railway termini. . . are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and...
Unless we remember...
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Yes, oh dear,...
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.
Source: Aspects of the Novel,...
Personal relations are...
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and...
The final test...
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...