A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. ForsterThe people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
E. M. Forster...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
E. M. ForsterThose who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. ForsterOne minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.
E. M. Forster