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Great Quotes by E. M. Forster
- It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling…
- A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
- This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.…
- Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
- This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
- Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into…
- What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
- I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little…
- At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have…
- Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
- There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
- You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men…
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