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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.”

251. “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: “Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.”

252. “Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.”

253. “Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.”

— E. M. Forster

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

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

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”

255. “We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”

— 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.”

256. “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: “Ideas are fatal to caste.”

257. “Ideas are fatal to caste.”

— 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.”

258. “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.”

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

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

— E. M. Forster

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

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

— E. M. Forster

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

262. “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.”

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

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

— E. M. Forster

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

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

— 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.”

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

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

— 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.”

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

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

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

— 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.”

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

273. “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: “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.”

274. “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: “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.”

275. “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: “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.”

276. “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: “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.”

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

278. “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: “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.”

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

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

— 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.”

281. “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: “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.”

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

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

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “He had robbed the body of its taint, the world’s taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.”

284. “He had robbed the body of its taint, the world’s taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.”

— 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.”

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

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

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

— 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?”

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

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

— 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.”

290. “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: “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: “One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.”

292. “One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.”

— 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.”

293. “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: “Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding.”

294. “Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding.”

— 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.”

295. “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: “At my age one’s seldom amazed,” he said, smiling. “Marriage is too absurd in any case. It begins and continues for such very slight reasons. The social business props it up on one side, and the theological business on the other, but neither of them are marriage, are they? I’ve friends who can’t remember why they married, no more can their wives. I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”

296. “At my age one’s seldom amazed,” he said, smiling. “Marriage is too absurd in any case. It begins and continues for such very slight reasons. The social business props it up on one side, and the theological business on the other, but neither of them are marriage, are they? I’ve friends who can’t remember why they married, no more can their wives. I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .”

297. “Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .”

— E. M. Forster

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

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

— 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.”

299. “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: “Then she turned westward, to gaze at the swirling gold. Just where the river rounded the hill the sun caught it. Fairyland must lie above the bend, and its precious liquid was pouring towards them past Charles’s bathing shed.”

300. “Then she turned westward, to gaze at the swirling gold. Just where the river rounded the hill the sun caught it. Fairyland must lie above the bend, and its precious liquid was pouring towards them past Charles’s bathing shed.”

— E. M. Forster

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