E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 10

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• He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

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  Christianity, Ends, Ought

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.58, Hachette UK

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

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  Humanity, Horizon, Pursuit

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• Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

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  Lying, Believe, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.267, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Life, America, Interesting

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• Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

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  Obsession, Purity, Obsessed

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

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  Inspirational, Taken, Creativity

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

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  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

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• If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

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  Stories, Ifs, Universe

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.87, RosettaBooks

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• “It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

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  Fate, Unhappy, Room With A View

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. 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, and India fails to accommodate them.

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  Beautiful, Men, August

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• 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.

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  Country, Home, Men

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.136, RosettaBooks

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• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

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  Air, Expression, Names

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• Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

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  Men, Trying, Majority

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

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• Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

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  Let Her Go, Cried

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.63, 谷月社

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• 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.

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  Believe, Passion, Way

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.435, Delphi Classics

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• A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

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  Art, Science, Abandoned

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• 'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

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  Dream, Sleep, Lasts

  "Maurice".

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• You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

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  Care, Littles, Way

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

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  Thinking, Solitude, Events

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Piano, Rebel, World

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Character, Fighting, Artist

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.151, Stanford University Press

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• Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

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  Book, Want, Language

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• Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

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  Age, Growing, Emotion

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

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  Men, Hands, Spy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

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• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

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  Breathing, People, Goes On

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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