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. E. M. Forster good personality recipient Change image and share on social
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. E. M. Forster mind faith process Change image and share on social
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster literature man write Change image and share on social
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. E. M. Forster vanity acknowledge hold Change image and share on social
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. E. M. Forster final test affection Change image and share on social
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. E. M. Forster opinion possess order Change image and share on social
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster cheer variety permit Change image and share on social
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. E. M. Forster agreement fool fate Change image and share on social
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. E. M. Forster people death differ Change image and share on social
