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E. M. Forster Quote: “I’m a holy man minus the holiness.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Italy and London are the only places where I don’t feel to exist on sufferance.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man’s feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world’s enemy, and she must stifle it.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?”
E. M. Forster Quote: “He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Anyone can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I do not believe in Belief.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It is not that the Englishman can’t feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “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.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “One is certain of nothing but the truth of one’s own emotions.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “You care for me a little bit, I do think, but I can’t hang all my life on a little bit.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “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 Quote: “To them Howards End was a house; they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir. And – pushing one step farther in these mists – may they not have decided even better than they supposed? Is it credible that the possessions of the spirit can be bequeathed at all? Has the soul offspring? A wych-elm tree, a vine, a wisp of hay with dew on it – can passion for such things be transmitted where there is no bond of blood?”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I should have gone through life half awake if you’d had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here – ” He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. “Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Don’t believe those lies about intellectual people. They’re only written to soothe the majority.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.”
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