E. M. Forster Two Quotations

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.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

We move between two darknesses.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature...

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.