"Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may……" — E. M. Forster
"Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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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…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed…
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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I am the worst judge of my books.
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I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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