Quotes by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist

Lived from: 1879 - 1970

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 1 january 1879 Died: 7 june 1970

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  • Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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  • Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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  • We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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  • We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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  • We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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 belive in Art for Art's sake.
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