E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 7

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• Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

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  Speak, Deserted

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• At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

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  Stars, Night, Hills

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.191, RosettaBooks

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• Don't go fighting against the Spring.

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  Spring, Fighting

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

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  Emotional, Civilization, Tolerance

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• The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

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  Suicide, Lying, Feelings

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.275, 谷月社

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• The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

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  Regret, Yesterday, Today

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.37, 谷月社

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• People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

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  People, Wish, Novelists

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.74, RosettaBooks

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• He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

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  Order, Two, Perfection

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• The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

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  Believe, Essence, Romance

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

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  Literature, Reverence

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

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• Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

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  Passion, Doe, Sanity

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

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  Niece, Sky, Rose

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

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  Men, Literature, Charm

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, p. 448, 2008.

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• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

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  Trying, Cold, Daily Life

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 251, to Florence Barger, December 23, 1924.

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• Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

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  Character, Perfect, Patterns

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.6, Stanford University Press

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• This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

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  Lying, Love You, Fighting

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1475, Simon and Schuster

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• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

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  Growth, Literature, Destruction

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• Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

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  Personal Relationships

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 231, to W. J. H. Sprott, June 28, 1923.

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• It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

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  Time, Novelists, Stories

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.50, RosettaBooks

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• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

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  Stars, Failure, Fighting

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• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

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  Men, Symphony, Sublime

  Howards End (1910) ch. 5

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• The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

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  Men, Literature, Objects

  "Commonplace Book".

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

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  Imagination, Guilt, Disease

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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• If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

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  Play, Missing, Exciting

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.

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  Humble, People, Luck

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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