Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Quote by E M Forster

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men...

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

No one is India.

No one is India.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem...

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...