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E. M. Forster Quote: “I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one’s temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one... Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.”
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. For Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions – her own soul.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Gray clouds were charging across tissues of white, which stretched and shredded and tore slowly, until through their final layers there gleamed a hint of the disappearing blue. Summer was retreating. The wind roared, the trees groaned, yet the noise seemed insufficient for those vast operations in heaven. The weather was breaking up, breaking, broken, and it is a sense of the fit rather than of the supernatural that equips such crises with the salvos of angelic artillery.”
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.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.”
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.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.”
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.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect – I may say I hope – you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people’s backs up. He has no tact and no manners – I don’t mean by that that he has bad manners – and he will not keep his opinions to himself.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, “That is your friend,” and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught him tenderness. He could die for such a friend, he would allow such a friend to die for him; they would make any sacrifice for each other, and count the world nothing, neither death nor distance nor crossness could part them, because “this is my friend.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas – just imagine it! – rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist’s readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I think – I think – I think how little they think what lies so near them.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Mr. Ansell was not merely a man of some education; he had what no education can bring – the power of detecting what is important. Like many fathers, he had spared no expense over his boy, – he had borrowed money to start him at a rapacious and fashionable private school; he had sent him to tutors; he had sent him to Cambridge. But he knew that all this was not the important thing. The important thing was freedom.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “How few writers can prostitute all their powers!”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely of Miss Schlegels. But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Something had changed. He had journeyed – as on rare occasions a man must – till he stood behind right and wrong. On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can’t touch.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete – the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art – throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb. Not thus had she played on the little draped piano at the Bertolini, and “Too much Schumann” was not the remark that Mr. Beebe had passed to himself when she returned.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.”
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