All E. M. Forster Quotes
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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