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Literature Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as…
- The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a…
- Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.…
- 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…
- I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it…
- What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
- Reverence is fatal to literature.
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