"Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion." — E. M. Forster

"Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion."

— E. M. Forster

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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster has 350 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…

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More Classic Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a… — Drew Barrymore
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my… — Mario Batali
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach… — Mitch Albom
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money.… — Louisa May Alcott
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino

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