E. M. Forster Quotes

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.

E. M. Forster

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

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• I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

  

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• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

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• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

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• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

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• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

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• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

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• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

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• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

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• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

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• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

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• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  

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• The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

  

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• One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

  

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• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Perfect