E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 12

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• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  E. M. Forster

  Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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• “It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

  E. M. Forster

  Fate, Unhappy, Room With A View

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Thinking, Littles

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

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  Unhappy, Unbearable

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

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  Moving, Men, Gains

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• I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Literature, Philosophic

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.46, Stanford University Press

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• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

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  Civilization, Mind, Foundation

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

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• One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

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  Retorts, Niceness

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.14, 谷月社

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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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• Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

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  Spiritual, Heaven, Promise

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• If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

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  Passion, Sleep, Past

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• It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

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  Writing, Trying, Literature

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

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• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

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  Dog, Flower, Gun

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• This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

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  Thinking, Solitude, Events

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Running, Hero, Pudding

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

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• Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

  E. M. Forster

  Delicacy, Room With A View

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1082, Simon and Schuster

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• The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

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  Strength, Success, Taken

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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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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• In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

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  Atheist, Thinking, Church

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• It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

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  Fall, School, Justice

  Abinger Harvest "Notes on English Character" (1936)

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• Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

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  Let Her Go, Cried

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.63, 谷月社

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• What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

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  People, Huffy, Negative

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• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

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  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.134, RosettaBooks

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• You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

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  Care, Littles, Way

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• 'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

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  Dream, Sleep, Lasts

  "Maurice".

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