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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster

Nature pulls one way and human nature another. — E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. — E. M. Forster

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. — E. M. Forster

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. — E. M. Forster

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out. — E. M. Forster

She thought him invertebrate and conventional. — E. M. Forster

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes. — E. M. Forster

While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well. — E. M. Forster

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

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. — E. M. Forster

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. — E. M. Forster

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. — E. M. Forster

The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak. — E. M. Forster

How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said? — E. M. Forster

and Imperialism always had been one of her difficulties. — E. M. Forster

Kindly answer my question. Am I late? — E. M. Forster

He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them. — E. M. Forster

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces. — E. M. Forster

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it. — E. M. Forster

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E. M. Forster

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes. — E. M. Forster

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness. — E. M. Forster

She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. — E. M. Forster

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. - E. M. Forster — Ransom Riggs

I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure. — E. M. Forster

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her. — E. M. Forster

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. — E. M. Forster

Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things. — E. M. Forster

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes. — E. M. Forster

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? — E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person. — E. M. Forster

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. — E. M. Forster

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. — E. M. Forster

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. — E. M. Forster

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. — E. M. Forster

There is a scene in it. The hero and heroine make love. Do you know about that? — E. M. Forster

Do you remember Italy? — E. M. Forster

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy. — E. M. Forster

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. — E. M. Forster

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure. — E. M. Forster

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail. — E. M. Forster

Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy. — E. M. Forster

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. — E. M. Forster

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. — E. M. Forster

Everything must be like something, so what is this ike? — E. M. Forster

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children. — E. M. Forster

... there are shadows because there are hills. — E. M. Forster

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. — E. M. Forster

No one is India. — E. M. Forster

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. — E. M. Forster

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? — E. M. Forster

I've swallowed a pollywog. It wriggleth in my tummy. I shall die - Emerson — E. M. Forster

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today. — E. M. Forster

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. — E. M. Forster

Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy. — E. M. Forster

Ideas are fatal to caste. — E. M. Forster

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it. — E. M. Forster

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science. — E. M. Forster

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's. — E. M. Forster

Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram. — E. M. Forster

You confuse what's important with what's impressive. — E. M. Forster

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants. — E. M. Forster

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings. — E. M. Forster

Anyone can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God. — E. M. Forster

Reverence is fatal to literature. — E. M. Forster

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster

Premonitions are not preparation. She — E. M. Forster

The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations. — E. M. Forster

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. — E. M. Forster

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson. — E. M. Forster

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. — E. M. Forster

It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid. — E. M. Forster

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? — E. M. Forster

Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful. — E. M. Forster

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul. — E. M. Forster

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult. — E. M. Forster

land as much as anyone owned it. What did it matter if a few flabby — E. M. Forster

Travel was a species of warfare. — E. M. Forster

A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved. — E. M. Forster

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is. — E. M. Forster

The Machine stops."
"What do you say?"
"The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."
She burst into a peal of laugher. — E. M. Forster

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

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room. — E. M. Forster

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. — E. M. Forster

How can it be expressed in anything but itself? — E. M. Forster

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. — E. M. Forster

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster

The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them. — E. M. Forster

One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister. — E. M. Forster

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — E. M. Forster

mulcted of his presents, but they were given — E. M. Forster

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed. — E. M. Forster

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible
it's wrong. — E. M. Forster

The old trouble: things won't fit.'
'What things?'
'The things of the universe. — E. M. Forster

I do like Christmas on the whole ... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. — E. M. Forster