E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 9

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

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  Thinking, Squares, Heaven

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

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  Knowledge, Science, Long

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.299, Xist Publishing

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• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

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  Fate, Agreement, Literature

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• The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

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  People, Want, Sensitive

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

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• The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.

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  Aunt, Years, Secret

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.861, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

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  Thinking, Play, Effort

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.482, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

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  Type, Persons, Has Beens

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• The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.

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  Song, Tree, Moments

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

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  Home, House, Desire

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• The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

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  Men, Blue, Sky

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

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• I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

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  Class, Worry, Support

  "Liberty In England", Speech (June 21, 1935), reprinted in "Abinger Harvest", 1936.

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• Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

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  Passion, Classic, Howards End

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 22

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• Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

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  Love, Passion, Fragments

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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• The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

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  Bully, Firsts, Forget

  "Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End".

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• I am certainly an ought and not a must.

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  Literature, Ought

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• Ideas are fatal to caste.

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  Technology, Ideas, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.62, RosettaBooks

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• All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

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  Men, Heaven, Unity

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

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  Justice, Naked, World

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

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• Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

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  Beautiful, Children, Ends

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

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  Way, Human Nature, Howards End

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.577, Delphi Classics

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

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  Crush, Real, Adventure

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

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• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

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  Character, Vanity, Changed

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

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  War, Mean, Self

  "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.

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• Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

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  Helping, Belief, Lord

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

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• Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

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  Thoughtful, Men, World

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.424, Delphi Classics

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