E. M. Forster

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. ”

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. ”

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ”

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ”

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. ”