E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 4

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• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Believe, Order

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

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• Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

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  Book, Reading, Long

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• At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

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  Needs, Care, May

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

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• It isn't possible to love and to part.

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  Romantic, Possible Love, Room With A View

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

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• You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

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  Accomplishment, Intention, Chairs

  E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.118, Booklassic

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• Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

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  Romance, Pairs, Unexpected

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

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  Greatness, Men, Blood

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

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

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  Howards End, Glorious, Gates

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

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  Half, Hours

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

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  Book, Night, Fire

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• They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

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  Heart, Differences, Mind

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• The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

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  Night, Tree, Sun

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.83, RosettaBooks

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

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  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

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  Victory, Aristocracy, Chaos

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• There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Sky, Space

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• . . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

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  Drama, Sometimes, Life Is

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.3, 谷月社

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• He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

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  Real, Love You, Romantic Love

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• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

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  Poverty, Poet, Poor

  Howards End Chapter 6

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• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

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  Adventure, Muddle

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

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  Mean, Humanity, Progress

  E. M. Forster (2015). “The Machine Stops”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

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  Running, Character, Long

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.129, RosettaBooks

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• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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  Writing, Creativity, Creative

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Gide and George"

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• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

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  Land, People, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

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  Memories, Stupid, People

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

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  Running, Long, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

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