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E. M. Forster Quotes

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English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time. Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her life and ebbed out of it forever. The ripple had left no traces behind: the wave had strewn at her feet fragments torn from the unknown. A curious seeker, she stood for a while at the verge of the sea that tells so little, but tells a little, and watched the outgoing of this last tremendous tide. E. M. Forster
Don’t you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s have both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that..."
Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did... E. M. Forster
You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything. E. M. Forster
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards. E. M. Forster
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. Forster
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster
To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "There's never any great risk as long as you have money."
There's never any great risk as long as you have money. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Human beings have their great chance in the novel."
Human beings have their great chance in the novel. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is..."
He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail. E. M. Forster

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