The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. E. M. Forster Read Quote
The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. E. M. Forster Read Quote
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. E. M. Forster Read Quote
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. E. M. Forster Read Quote
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. E. M. Forster Read Quote
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. E. M. Forster Read Quote
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. E. M. Forster Read Quote
