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Edward M. Forster Quotes

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.



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.



Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.



Ideas are fatal to caste.



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.



Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.



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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