E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 7

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• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

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  Emotional, Civilization, Tolerance

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• He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

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  Order, Two, Perfection

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• The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

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  Believe, Essence, Romance

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

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  Trying, Cold, Daily Life

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 251, to Florence Barger, December 23, 1924.

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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

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  Literature, Reverence

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

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• Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

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  Passion, Doe, Sanity

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

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• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

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  Niece, Sky, Rose

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

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  Men, Literature, Charm

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, p. 448, 2008.

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• Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

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  Character, Perfect, Patterns

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.6, Stanford University Press

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• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

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  Lying, Suffering, Atheism

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

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• Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

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  Men, Towns, Lost

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

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  Imagination, Guilt, Disease

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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• Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

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  Character, House, Chess

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• It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

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  People, Like Me, Persecuted

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• Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...

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  Mazes, Conscious, Hard

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

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  Lakes, Cities, Chicago

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• The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

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  Character, Curves, Ideas

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• Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

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  Sympathy, Ifs

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

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  Literature, Taste, Majestic

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.81, 谷月社

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• I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

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  Shields, Insult, Room With A View

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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• Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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  Evil, Literature, Goodness

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.18, Stanford University Press

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• Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

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  Doe, Guarantees, Masterpiece

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• ...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

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  Changed

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• I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

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  Hurt, Fear, People

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• Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

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  Life, Writing, May

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