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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.

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.

E. M. Forster
Emotional, Civilization, Tolerance

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.

E. M. Forster
Trying, Cold, Daily Life
Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 251, to Florence Barger, December 23, 1924.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

E. M. Forster
Play, Missing, Exciting
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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

E. M. Forster
Shields, Insult, Room With A View
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

E. M. Forster
Love, Mean, People
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

E. M. Forster
Doe, Guarantees, Masterpiece

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

E. M. Forster
Hurt, Fear, People

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

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

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

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

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

E. M. Forster
Friendship, Writing, Finals
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.42, RosettaBooks

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

E. M. Forster
Lying, Suffering, Atheism
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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

E. M. Forster
Character, House, Chess

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

E. M. Forster
Writing, Tyrants, Savages
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.46, RosettaBooks

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

E. M. Forster
Men, Literature, Objects
"Commonplace Book".

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

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

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

E. M. Forster
House, Earth, Mansions
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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

E. M. Forster
Changed

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

E. M. Forster
Men, Towns, Lost
"Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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

E. M. Forster
Life, Writing, May

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

E. M. Forster
Lakes, Cities, Chicago

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