E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 5

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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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• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

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  Pain, Book, Interesting

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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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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• 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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• Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

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  Beautiful, People, Room With A View

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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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. . .

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  Passion, Sky, Space

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• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

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  Believe, Caring, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

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  Long, People, Immortality

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.255, RosettaBooks

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• Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

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  Practice, Literature, Life Is

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.158, Diversion Books

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• All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

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  Men, Umbrella, Equal

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

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  Men, Proud, Truthful

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.212, RosettaBooks

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• One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

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  Running, Giving, Turns

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

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• We move between two darknesses.

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  Moving, Two, Darkness

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

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• I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Voice

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• Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

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  Art, Thinking, Echoes

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• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.

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  Stars, Struggle, Wind

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

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  Art, Perfect, Facts

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

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• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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  People, Society, Literature

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

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• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

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  Liking Someone, Literature, Reason

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.83, Diversion Books

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• It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

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  Mean, Degrees, Gestures

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• Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

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  Virginia, Light, Missing

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• She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

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  Magic, Identity, Elbows

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

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• She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

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  Sight, Criminals, Firsts

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• It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.

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  Beautiful, Sports, Eye

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

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  Writing, Ideas, Novelists

  E M Forster (2016). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.143, Hachette UK

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