America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Quote by E M Forster

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

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...

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...

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

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...

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...

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

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...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in...

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in...

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

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...

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to...

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to...

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...