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Sense Quotes by E. M. Forster
- A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
- Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and…
- Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to…
- 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…
- No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
- Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and…
- A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love…
- No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
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