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Only Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star…
- As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this…
- The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal…
- Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around…
- This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.…
- Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
- Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
- Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist…
- If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a…
- Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
- In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,…
- Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
- Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...
- She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went…
- 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…
- If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the…
- Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.
- 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…
- There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality,…
- A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver…
- The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something…
- Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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