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

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

This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history. — E. M. Forster

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

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding. — E. M. Forster

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

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel. — Damon Galgut

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. — 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

I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly 'Bond.' — Marc Forster

Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German. — E. M. Forster

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together. — Robert Forster

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. — E. M. Forster

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

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

... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished. — E. M. Forster

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

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . . — 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

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

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

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

there's no cure for love, when it hits you make up your mind, to live with it! — Gwynne Forster

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

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

There's never any great risk as long as you have money. — E. M. Forster

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

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

He had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire. — 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

She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness — 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

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

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. — E. M. Forster

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

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it. — E. M. Forster

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful! — Margaret Forster

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. — E. M. Forster

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him — E. M. Forster

He pushed against her, their hips grinding slowly, and it was Lyssa's turn to moan. — Kate 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

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. — E. M. Forster

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are. — Robert Forster

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. — E. M. Forster

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past. — Marc Forster

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper. — E. M. Forster

The key method of self-deception about your salvation is to avoid self-examination about the state of your life. The — Gregory 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

Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster

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

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

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit! — Robert Forster

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

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

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

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

But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it. — E. M. Forster

If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion. — E. M. Forster

That was the beauty of Family, Dakota decided, you knew what it took to make them bleed. The magic was in choosing not too. — Ann Simko

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

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

Too late... everything's always too late. — E. M. Forster

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. — 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 work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire! — John Forster

God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve. — Margaret Forster

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

There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end. — E. M. Forster