All E. M. Forster Quotes
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Poetry
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster in
Faith
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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