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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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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how…
— Wendell Phillips
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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all…
— John Ruskin
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In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it…
— E. M. Forster
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Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of…
— Basil Pennington
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...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound…
— William Faulkner
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter…
— David Mitchell
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...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
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But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.
— Anna Godbersen
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