E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 13

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• How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

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  Said, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

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  Class, Manners, Gentility

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• But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

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  Real, Class, Drawing

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The strong are so stupid.

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  Strength, Strong, Stupid

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

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• Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

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  London, Feels

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.79, 谷月社

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• The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

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  Sex, Character, Names

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

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  Book, Taste, Pudding

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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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• The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

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  Hypocrite, Thinking, Islands

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• God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

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  Love, God, Power

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• It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

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  Character, Society, Difficult

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• What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

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  People, Huffy, Negative

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• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

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  Squash, Literature, Ifs

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• I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

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  Oscars, Wilde, Unspeakable

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• I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

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  Children, People, Behinds

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.119, RosettaBooks

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• Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

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  Two, Style, Generations

  "Two Cheers for Democracy". Book by E. M. Forster, 1951.

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• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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  Struggle, Lust, Together

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• Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

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  Delicacy, Room With A View

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1082, Simon and Schuster

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