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Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster America Americans

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Creation Creativity

Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Faith Unity

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Heroes Heroism

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster History Historians

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.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Ownership Possession

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Writers Writing

Love is always being given where it is not required.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Love Is Always Where

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Daily Good Stars

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Men Charm Decoration

History develops, art stands still.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Art Still Stands

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Life Either Ceases

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Mind Process Mental

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Life People Mess

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Connections Nonsense Close

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Life Sadness Never

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Men Small Way

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Together Information True

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Man Touch Objects

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.

~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Past Censorship Present
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