It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide to do without them again.

Quote by E M Forster

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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

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...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and...

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and...

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

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...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.