E M Forster

E M Forster: Spoon feeding in...

E M Forster: Spoon feeding in...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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E M Forster: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

E M Forster: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of...

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E M Forster: Works of art,...

E M Forster: Works of art,...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why,...

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E M Forster: There lies at...

E M Forster: There lies at...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to...

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E M Forster: Tolerance is a...

E M Forster: Tolerance is a...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely...

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E M Forster: America is rather...

E M Forster: America is rather...

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is...

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E M Forster: At night, when...

E M Forster: At night, when...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective...

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E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Source: A Passage to India, pt. 1, ch. 7, 1924.
-- E M...

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E M Forster: I suggest that...

E M Forster: I suggest that...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further...

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E M Forster: The people I...

E M Forster: The people I...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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E M Forster: The traveller who...

E M Forster: The traveller who...

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return...

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E M Forster: Beauty ought to...

E M Forster: Beauty ought to...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look...

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E M Forster: Only connect!...

E M Forster: Only connect!...

Only connect!

Source: Howards End, epigraph.
-- E M Forster, (Jan 1 1879-1970),...

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E M Forster: Those who prepared...

E M Forster: Those who prepared...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of...

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E M Forster: I distrust Great...

E M Forster: I distrust Great...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel...

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E M Forster: [The Englishman] has...

E M Forster: [The Englishman] has...

[The Englishman] has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or...

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E M Forster: Logic! Good...

E M Forster: Logic! Good...

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

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E M Forster: Think before you...

E M Forster: Think before you...

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think creation's.

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E M Forster: Failure or success...

E M Forster: Failure or success...

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of...

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E M Forster: The most successful...

E M Forster: The most successful...

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful...

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