M. Forster
M. Forster
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So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough; there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.
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It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
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Ulysses . . . is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud.
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This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and convinces me I have achieved.
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She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness.
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I hate the idea of causes, and 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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I suggest that 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 gone ourselves.
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American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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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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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.