| It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. |
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| I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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| Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. |
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- E.M. Forster |
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