E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 16

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I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

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Life, Nice, Being In Love

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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

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Moving, Two, Darkness

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Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

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Peace, War, Incredibles

"Howard's End".

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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

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Memories, Character, Empathy

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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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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

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Faith, Mind, Mental Health

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

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I do not believe in Belief.

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Believe, Belief

1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

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He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.

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Loneliness, Dust, Hands

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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

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Art, Taken, Men

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

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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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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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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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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

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Love Is, Soul, Wish

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

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Sympathy, Congratulations, Sincere

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.278, Delphi Classics

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This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence.

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Queens, Marching On, Appreciate

"Aspects Of the Novel".

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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

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Fall, School, Justice

Abinger Harvest "Notes on English Character" (1936)

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