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E. M. Forster Quote: “Travel was a species of warfare.”

351. “Travel was a species of warfare.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, “Man is the measure”, and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.”

352. “I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, “Man is the measure”, and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Life – No, I’ve nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.”

353. “Life – No, I’ve nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Don’t brood too much,” she wrote to Helen, “on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It’s true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.”

354. “Don’t brood too much,” she wrote to Helen, “on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It’s true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.”

355. “It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”

356. “Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.”

357. “It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Belfastas uncivilised as ever – savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.”

358. “Belfastas uncivilised as ever – savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “This desire to govern a woman – it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does.” He thought. “Yes – really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”

359. “This desire to govern a woman – it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does.” He thought. “Yes – really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Life’s very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I’ve got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged – well, one can’t do all these things at once, worse luck, because they’re so contradictory. It’s then that proportion comes in – to live by proportion. Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...”

360. “Life’s very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I’ve got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged – well, one can’t do all these things at once, worse luck, because they’re so contradictory. It’s then that proportion comes in – to live by proportion. Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “A slow nature such as Maurice’s appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.”

361. “A slow nature such as Maurice’s appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The Waves is an extraordinary achievement... It is trembling on the edge. A little less – and it would lose its poetry. A little more – and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.”

362. “The Waves is an extraordinary achievement... It is trembling on the edge. A little less – and it would lose its poetry. A little more – and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don’t know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.”

363. “All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don’t know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.”

364. “The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

365. “She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Beautiful?” said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. “Are not beauty and delicacy the same?”

366. “Beautiful?” said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. “Are not beauty and delicacy the same?”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”

367. “Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.”

368. “Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.”

369. “Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.”

370. “There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

371. “Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That’s where we practical fellows’- he smiled-’are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.”

372. “One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That’s where we practical fellows’- he smiled-’are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.”

373. “The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

374. “Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I really don’t know what happens next – one so seldom does.”

375. “I really don’t know what happens next – one so seldom does.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

376. “It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Your soul, dear Lucy! I hate the word now, because of all the cant with which superstition has wrapped it round. But we have souls, and I see you ruining yours. I cannot bear it.”

377. “Your soul, dear Lucy! I hate the word now, because of all the cant with which superstition has wrapped it round. But we have souls, and I see you ruining yours. I cannot bear it.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Life had proved a blind alley, with a muck heap at the end of it, and he must cut back and start again.”

378. “Life had proved a blind alley, with a muck heap at the end of it, and he must cut back and start again.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.”

379. “He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror – on thethings that I might have avoided.”

380. “It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror – on thethings that I might have avoided.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.”

381. “The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.”

382. “A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.”

383. “And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled.”

384. “Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity – not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort – not anyone pompous or tearful – were caring for us up in the sky.”

385. “We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity – not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort – not anyone pompous or tearful – were caring for us up in the sky.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.”

386. “Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;.”

387. “The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.”

388. “Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “As is Man to the Universe, so was the mind of Mr. Wilcox to the minds of some men – a concentrated light upon a tiny spot, a little Ten Minutes moving self-contained through its appointed years. No Pagan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers. He lived for the five minutes that have past, and the five to come; he had the business mind.”

389. “As is Man to the Universe, so was the mind of Mr. Wilcox to the minds of some men – a concentrated light upon a tiny spot, a little Ten Minutes moving self-contained through its appointed years. No Pagan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers. He lived for the five minutes that have past, and the five to come; he had the business mind.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.”

390. “Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.”

391. “Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Reverence is fatal to literature.”

392. “Reverence is fatal to literature.”

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E. M. Forster Quote: “They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.”

393. “They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought – Haven’t we all to struggle against life’s daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place – some beloved place or tree – we thought you one of these.”

394. “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought – Haven’t we all to struggle against life’s daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place – some beloved place or tree – we thought you one of these.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.”

395. “Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.”

396. “I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I don’t think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.”

397. “I don’t think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him – that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.”

398. “Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him – that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.”

399. “The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Petty unselfishness,” she repeated. “I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn’t care for, to please people they didn’t love; that they never learnt to be sincere – and, what’s as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves.”

400. “Petty unselfishness,” she repeated. “I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn’t care for, to please people they didn’t love; that they never learnt to be sincere – and, what’s as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves.”

— E. M. Forster

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