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Intuition attracts those who w...

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

A sentence begins quite simply...

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The hungry and the homeless do...

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

If only the sense of actuality...

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

People in a novel can be under...

People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Pity wraps the student of the ...

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Sex begins before adolescence,...

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Neanderthal man listened to st...

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

It is never possible for a nov...

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Tolerance is just a makeshift,...

Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

In the novel we can know peopl...

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

I have no mystic faith in the ...

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

If there is on earth a house w...

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Paganism is infectious, more i...

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

You can transmute love, ignore...

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

It is the starved imagination,...

It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Those who search for truth are...

Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

A critic has no right to the n...

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

Italy and London are the only ...

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

The novel is a formidable mass...

The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

Edward Forster 502 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....