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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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Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
— Gordon Baxter
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says…
— L. Neil Smith
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to…
— David R. Brower
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Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on…
— Hugh Laurie
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There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being…
— Bill Engvall
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Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation,…
— Emil Fackenheim
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Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to…
— Jay H. Lehr
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Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.
— Ali Gomaa
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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.…
— George Orwell
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In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a…
— Mike Harding
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