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E. M. Forster Quotes

E. M. Forster quotes about happy

English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy. E. M. Forster
You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop deing shocked, and attend to your own happiness. E. M. Forster
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the..."
And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured. 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
I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness? E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible..."
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that..."
Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did... E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the..."
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? E. M. Forster

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