English - Novelist | January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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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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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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