No one is India.

Quote by E M Forster

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person...

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...

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

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

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...

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 historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

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...

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man...

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

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...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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 am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be...