E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 13

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• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

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  People, Might, Individual

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• [...] 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.

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  Christian, Running, Jesus

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

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• Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

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  Government, Support, Democracy

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

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• I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

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  Oscars, Wilde, Unspeakable

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• Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

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  Portraiture, Roger, Able

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• Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

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  Men, August, Poetry

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.211, RosettaBooks

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• There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

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  Wish, Gone, Debate

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

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  Flower, Blue, Views

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

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• Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

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  Filth, Pathos, Piety

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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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.

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  Culture, World, Kingdoms

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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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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• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

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  Love, College, Oxford

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.96, Xist Publishing

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• I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

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  Children, People, Behinds

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.119, RosettaBooks

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• The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

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  Husband, Literature, Want

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.206, Xist Publishing

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• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

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  Children, Class, Literature

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• As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

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  Travel, Florence, Ease

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

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  Writing, Mountain, Literature

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• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

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  Jobs, Long, Would Be

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

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  Real, Heart, Enemy

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.144, 谷月社

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• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

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  Squash, Literature, Ifs

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• It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

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  Self Confidence, History, Office

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• We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

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  Husband, Literature, Want

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

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  Doe, Next, Happens

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• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

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  Children, Good Luck, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 12

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• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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  Courage, Literature, Be Courageous

  "Pharos and Pharillon" by E.M. Forster, 1923.

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