The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Quote by E M Forster

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I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

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.

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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...

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

No one is India.

No one is India.

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...

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...

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

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

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