E. M. Forster Quotes

English - Novelist | January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

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MoneyLookThingsUsRatherThan

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

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MindFoundationCivilizationSound

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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EvilGoodnessSenseOnlyWhoWriter

No one is India.

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India

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

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StandYouSoftGetEvenSquashed

History develops, art stands still.

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HistoryArtStillStandsDevelops

Reverence is fatal to literature.

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LiteratureReverenceFatal

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

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DeathManHimIdeaSavesDestroys

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

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I AmMustOughtAmCertainly

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

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ChildrenWhyDiscomfortMiddleStill

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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ManPoetryTouchSeekObjectsSort

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

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LoveYouthTo LoveCambridgeRather

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