"Reverence is fatal to literature." — E. M. Forster
"Reverence is fatal to literature."
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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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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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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,…
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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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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims…
— Agatha Christie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
— George F. Kennan
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free…
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