Quotes by E M Forster

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

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

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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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.

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

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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

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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

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

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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

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