E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

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  Death, Men, Funeral

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

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  Luxury, People, Poor

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 5

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• It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

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  Miles

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• Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

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  Flower, Truth Is, Neighbourhoods

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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