Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Quote by E M Forster

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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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

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

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

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

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

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

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...

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

No one is India.

No one is India.

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...

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.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.