December 18, 2011

Top 5 quotes by E. M. Forster

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 believe in Art for Art's sake.

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.

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.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

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