beautiful woman

book

cause

Chicago

creation

curiosity

ecstasy

Englishman

faith

fascism

humanism

literature

motherhood

nonsense

poem

reading

spoon-feeding

teaching

thinking

truth

white race

work of art

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

novelist

essayist

short story writer

intellectual movement

Bloomsbury Group

literary critic

screenwriter

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

biographer

science fiction writer

cause of death

natural causes

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

's function is to make us feel small in the right way, whereas men are capable only of making us feel small in the wrong way.

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)

is always best when looking a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

is able to influence us only if we are ready for it. It has to have gone only a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. (E. M. Forster)

is a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.E. M. Forster

is one of the lowest of the human faculties. When people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.E. M. Forster

 cannot last, but it can carve a channel for something lasting.

Ecstasy cannot last, but can carve a channel for something lasting.

is somebody who is unable to like anyone who cannot knock him down.

is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

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

is defined by yapping out orders, self-righteous brutality, and both social and international war.

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty — in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub — our immediate duty is to stop it.

is that which transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

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

is antithetical to war. If the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections. (E. M. Forster)

is contrasted with information in that information points to something else, but a poem points to nothing but itself. It is true simply if it hangs together.

a poem is true if it hangs together. information points to something else. a poem points to nothing but itself.

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

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

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

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

is an activity which, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

is not merely a matter of transfering information. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

is a flower in whose neighborhood others must wither.

is the only object in the material universe to possess internal order, and thus a justification for art for art's sake.

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)

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