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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.
By E. M. Forster
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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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.
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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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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
By E. M. Forster