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E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 9

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Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Passion, Classic, Howards End

'Howards End' (1910) ch. 22

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

Thinking, Squares, Heaven

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Fear, Past, Freedom Of Speech

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

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

Bully, Firsts, Forget

"Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End".

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

Men, Heaven, Unity

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.37, RosettaBooks

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Technology, Ideas, Literature

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.62, RosettaBooks

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Literature, Ought

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

Justice, Naked, World

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

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Beautiful, Children, Ends

E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.81, Hachette UK

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Way, Human Nature, Howards End

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.577, Delphi Classics

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

Love, Passion, Fragments

Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Men, Literature, Agnostic

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.201, Delphi Classics

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

Crush, Real, Adventure

E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Character, Vanity, Changed

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

War, Mean, Self

"Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Helping, Belief, Lord

1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

People, Wish, Novelists

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.74, RosettaBooks

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Thoughtful, Men, World

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.424, Delphi Classics

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

Christianity, Ends, Ought

E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.58, Hachette UK

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Humanity, Horizon, Pursuit

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Lying, Believe, People

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.267, Delphi Classics

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Obsession, Purity, Obsessed

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Life, America, Interesting

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

Inspirational, Taken, Creativity

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

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Life, Joy, Preparation

'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

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