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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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...

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...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

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...

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

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...

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

No one is India.

No one is India.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

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...

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

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

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

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...

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.