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• A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

  E. M. Forster

  Falling In Love, Writing, Men

  "To a Happier Year" by Peter Fulham, www.newyorker.com. June 26, 2013.

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• For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

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  Believe, Serious Things, Intimate

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.95, Delphi Classics

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• I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

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  Christmas, Holiday, Years

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.68, 谷月社

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

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  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

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  Cheer, Democracies Have, Two

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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• It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.

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  Mean, Men, Names

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.381, 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 talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Interesting, Literature

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

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• I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

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  Writing, Mean, People

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• Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

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  Creativity, Two, Perfect

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• Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Long, Criticism

  and Related Writings (1974) p. 129

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• Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Mind, Atheism, Half

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• All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

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  Children, Essence, Parent

  "Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature".

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• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

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  Lying, Suffering, Atheism

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

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• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

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  House, Earth, Mansions

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

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• The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

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  Organization, Doe, Literature

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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• Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

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  Finding Happiness, Should, Boxes

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.399, Delphi Classics

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• It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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  People, Speak, Difficult

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

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• The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

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  Age, Horror, Middle

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• You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

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  Love, Equality, Want

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

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  Fear, Past, Freedom Of Speech

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

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• Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

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  Chance, Novel, Humans

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.241, RosettaBooks

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• When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

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  Race, Dust, Perfection

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• They had nothing in common but the English language.

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  Common, Language, English Language

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.308, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• History develops, art stands still.

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  Art, History, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.39, RosettaBooks

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• When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

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  Remembered

  "Maurice". Book by E. M. Forster, part two, 1971.

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