I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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