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Famous E. M. Forster Quotes
“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”
“Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”
“Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.”
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”
“Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”
“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
“There's never any great risk as long as you have money.”
“Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.”
“You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.”
“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”
“He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.”
“Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.”
“A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.”
“Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.”
“Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life”