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E. M. Forster Quote: “Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.”

251. “Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls “Come” through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”

252. “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls “Come” through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”

253. “Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”

254. “It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.”

255. “Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.”

256. “Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It’s miles worse for you than that; I’m in love with your gamekeeper.”

257. “It’s miles worse for you than that; I’m in love with your gamekeeper.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”

258. “America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Ideas are fatal to caste.”

259. “Ideas are fatal to caste.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.”

260. “The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”

261. “There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood – a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.”

262. “A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood – a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.”

263. “I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil.”

264. “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “But let yourself go. You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. It will be good for both of you.”

265. “But let yourself go. You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. It will be good for both of you.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “We are all like Scheherazade’s husband, in that we want to know what happens next.”

266. “We are all like Scheherazade’s husband, in that we want to know what happens next.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.”

267. “It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy’s first aim was to defeat herself.”

268. “The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy’s first aim was to defeat herself.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?”

269. “Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “All men are my brothers and as soon as one behaves as such he may see my wife.”

270. “All men are my brothers and as soon as one behaves as such he may see my wife.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr. Eager’s mouth it resembled nothing so much as an acid whistling fountain which played ever higher and higher, and quicker and quicker, and more and more shrilly, till abruptly it was turned off with a click.”

271. “Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr. Eager’s mouth it resembled nothing so much as an acid whistling fountain which played ever higher and higher, and quicker and quicker, and more and more shrilly, till abruptly it was turned off with a click.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “You, who have just crossed the Roof of the World, will not want to hear an account of the little hills that I saw – low, colorless hills. But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable force to men in the past, and that men had loved them. Now they sleep – perhaps for ever. They commune with humanity in dreams.”

272. “You, who have just crossed the Roof of the World, will not want to hear an account of the little hills that I saw – low, colorless hills. But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable force to men in the past, and that men had loved them. Now they sleep – perhaps for ever. They commune with humanity in dreams.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I don’t think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.”

273. “I don’t think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously.”

274. “They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.”

275. “Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.”

276. “And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Can what they call civilization be right, if people mayn’t die in the room where they were born?”

277. “Can what they call civilization be right, if people mayn’t die in the room where they were born?”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?”

278. “Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “But he saw only dying light and a dead land. He uttered no prayer, believed in no deity, and knew that the past was devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”

279. “But he saw only dying light and a dead land. He uttered no prayer, believed in no deity, and knew that the past was devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.”

280. “Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.”

281. “But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Beautiful conventions received them – while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips, the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.”

282. “Beautiful conventions received them – while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips, the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I don’t intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life – good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn’t, and shall never, understand.”

283. “I don’t intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life – good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn’t, and shall never, understand.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.”

284. “It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “When they sat it was nearly always in the same position – Maurice in a chair, and Durham at his feet, leaning against him. In the world of their friends this attracted no notice. Maurice would stroke Durham’s hair.”

285. “When they sat it was nearly always in the same position – Maurice in a chair, and Durham at his feet, leaning against him. In the world of their friends this attracted no notice. Maurice would stroke Durham’s hair.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.”

286. “At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Like every true performer, she was intoxicated by the mere feel of the notes: they were fingers caressing her own; and by touch, not by sound alone, did she come to her desire.”

287. “Like every true performer, she was intoxicated by the mere feel of the notes: they were fingers caressing her own; and by touch, not by sound alone, did she come to her desire.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I am certainly an ought and not a must.”

288. “I am certainly an ought and not a must.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I have always been like the Greeks and didn’t know.”

289. “I have always been like the Greeks and didn’t know.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”

290. “Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”

291. “Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The strong are so stupid.”

292. “The strong are so stupid.”

— E. M. Forster

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E. M. Forster Quote: “I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.”

293. “I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.”

294. “Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

295. “She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “My conviction,” says the mystic, “gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it,” and they had agreed that there was something beyond life’s daily grey.”

296. “My conviction,” says the mystic, “gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it,” and they had agreed that there was something beyond life’s daily grey.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature – for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

297. “England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature – for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.”

298. “He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.”

299. “One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.”

300. “The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.”

— E. M. Forster

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