It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.


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E. M. FORSTER
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the ...
E. M. FORSTER
History develops, art stands still.
E. M. FORSTER
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTER
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTER
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. FORSTER
We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
E. M. FORSTER
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in...
E. M. FORSTER
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. FORSTER
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to l...
E. M. FORSTER
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. FORSTER
Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. FORSTER
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in...
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. FORSTER
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. FORSTER
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should ...
E. M. FORSTER
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an...
E. M. FORSTER
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat...
E. M. FORSTER
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTER
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter...
E. M. FORSTER
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d...
E. M. FORSTER
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ...
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil...
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves...
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people...
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde...
E. M. FORSTER
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr...
E. M. FORSTER
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
E. M. FORSTER
Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t...
E. M. FORSTER
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
E. M. FORSTER
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when...
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sp...
E. M. FORSTER
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too,...
E. M. FORSTER
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will ...
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy d...
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; ...
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is neg...
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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