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E. M. Forster Quotes about Literature - Page 2

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I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Literature, Ought

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

English literature is a flying fish.

Fishing, Flying, Literature

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Literature, Paganism, Piety

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.133, 谷月社

The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

Writing, Mountain, Literature

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

Writing, Trying, Literature

E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

Thinking, Literature, Philosophic

E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.46, Stanford University Press

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Husband, Literature, Want

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.206, Xist Publishing

We may divide characters into flat and round.

Character, Literature, May

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.103, RosettaBooks

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Children, Class, Literature

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Courage, Literature, Be Courageous

"Pharos and Pharillon" by E.M. Forster, 1923.

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

India, Asking, Literature

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

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Rubbish, Literature, Logic

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.152, RosettaBooks

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Squash, Literature, Ifs

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Children, Good Luck, Literature

'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 12

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Husband, Literature, Want

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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