E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 14

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• It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

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  Should Have, Practice, Desire

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.463, Delphi Classics

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• The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

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  Art, Sadness, Should

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.446, Delphi Classics

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• Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

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  Niece, Thinking, Anecdotes

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

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  Love, Men, Ideas

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• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

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  India, Asking, Literature

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 8

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• I love love
  I love being in love
  I don't care what it does to me
  The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
  Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

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  Life, Nice, Being In Love

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• Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

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  Life, Relationship, Important

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 19

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• Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

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  Life, Ordinary, Needs

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 216, to Florence Barger, February 11, 1922.

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• He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Soul

  E. M. Forster (2015). “The Longest Journey”, p.246, Booklassic

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• I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

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  Romantic, Love Is, Poet

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

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  Believe, Men, Unhappy

  E. M. Forster (2015). “The Machine Stops”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

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  Two, Style, Generations

  "Two Cheers for Democracy". Book by E. M. Forster, 1951.

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• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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  Struggle, Lust, Together

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• In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

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  Reading, People, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks

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• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

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  Moving, Home, Giving

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

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• I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

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  Love Is, Soul, Wish

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

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  Men, Skulls, Judging

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• Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

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  Sex, Age, Mating

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.78, RosettaBooks

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• Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

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  Past, Clouds, Students

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• Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

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  Peace, War, Incredibles

  "Howard's End".

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• Do you remember Italy?

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  Remember

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

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  Hands, Shields, Faces

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社

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• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

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  Horse, Rocks, Views

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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• He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

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  Action, Reason, Passing

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• Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.

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  Spring, Men, Law

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.56, 谷月社

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