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E. M. Forster has 346 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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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…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
— E. M. Forster
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
— Sinclair Lewis
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The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money,…
— Patrick Macnee
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
— Francoise Sagan
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It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called…
— Barbara Mertz
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Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own…
— Steve Hockensmith
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You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to…
— John Fowles
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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
— James M. Barrie
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What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well…
— Wendy Kaminer
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I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.
— Diana Rigg
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Paris: Dinner at Kong. Waited an hour for our table, wine uncorked onto my pants, entree dropped on my jacket. Bad form!
— Neil Patrick Harris
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