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Any Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
- The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
- It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying…
- The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal'…
- Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She…
- A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now…
- It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet…
- Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that…
- I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will…
- It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a…
- Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other…
- It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is…
- There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
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