English - Novelist | January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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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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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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