E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 16

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• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

  E. M. Forster

  Jobs, Long, Would Be

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Views, Long

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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.

  E. M. Forster

  Queens, Marching On, Appreciate

  "Aspects Of the Novel".

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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.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Taken, Men

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

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

  E. M. Forster

  Sympathy, Congratulations, Sincere

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

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• I do not believe in Belief.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Belief

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

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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.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Character, Empathy

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• I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

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  Humility, Two, Empathy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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• The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

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  Strength, Success, Taken

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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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.

  E. M. Forster

  Plot, Elements, Detectives

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.132, RosettaBooks

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• Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Thinking, Anecdotes

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Skulls, Judging

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• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

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  Moving, Home, Giving

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

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• In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

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  Reading, People, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks

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• Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

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  Literature, Paganism, Piety

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.133, 谷月社

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, August, Poetry

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.211, RosettaBooks

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