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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

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Thinking, People, Forget

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.76, RosettaBooks

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But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

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Believe, Book, Blue

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.407, Delphi Classics

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As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

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Travel, Florence, Ease

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

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Flower, Blue, Views

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

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I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

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Lying, Thinking, Littles

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.

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Photography, Children, Passion

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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

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Culture, World, Kingdoms

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

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Miles

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

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Children, Class, Literature

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For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

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Gratitude, Children, Love Life

E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.109, Booklassic

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Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

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Form, Values

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

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One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

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Book, Taste, Pudding

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There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

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Feelings, Spiders, Feels

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But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

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Art, People, Naked

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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

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Power

1936 Abinger Harvest,'Ronald Firbank'.

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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.

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Husband, And Love, Might

E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.151, 谷月社

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She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

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Love, Passion, Men

Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

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Sorrow, Trying, World

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.371, Delphi Classics

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Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

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Dog, Character, Light

'Aspects of the Novel' (1927) ch. 6 (on James Joyce's 'Ulysses')

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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.

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Children, Home, Men

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

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Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

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Pain, Giving, Publicity

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I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.

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Thinking, Said, Knows

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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

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Rubbish, Literature, Logic

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.152, RosettaBooks

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Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

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Horse, Rocks, Views

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

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Should Have, Practice, Desire

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.463, Delphi Classics

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Born: January 1, 1879
Died: June 7, 1970
Occupation: Novelist
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