Quotes about E M Forster

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

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

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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

#E M Forster

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

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

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

#E M Forster

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

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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

#E M Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

#E M Forster