Drama Quote by E. M. Forster

“. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .”

E. M. Forster

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Reverence is fatal to literature.

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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

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Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else…

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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure…

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A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at…

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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

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