English - Novelist | January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970
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
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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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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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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