E M Forster Quotes

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide to do without them again. - E M Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. - E M Forster

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up. - E M Forster

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. - E M Forster

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. - E M Forster

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