E. M. Forster Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

• If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Long, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

• I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Strong, Men

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.674, Delphi Classics

• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Views, Long

• Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Character, Long

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.129, RosettaBooks

• In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Bullying, Nice

  "A Passage to India".

• [...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.

  E. M. Forster

  Christian, Running, Jesus

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.243, Stanford University Press

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

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Giving, Turns

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

• An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Hero, Pudding

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

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