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Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

E. M. Forster
Spring, Fighting
E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.71, Diversion Books

Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

E. M. Forster
Stars, Failure, Fighting

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

E. M. Forster
Lying, Love You, Fighting
Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1475, Simon and Schuster

But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.

E. M. Forster
Character, Fighting, Artist
E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.151, Stanford University Press

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