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English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas. E. M. Forster
There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds. E. M. Forster
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson. E. M. Forster
He has dreams - not exactly spiritual dreams: but dreams of the tangible and the actual: robust dreams, which take him, not to heaven, but another earth. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a..."
He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman. E. M. Forster
Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. E. M. Forster
He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very well, you're clever, we know—but come!" It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, "I'll come—I didn't know." "You can't help yourself now. You must come." "I don't want to help myself." "Come then." He did come. He flung down all the barriers—not at once, for he did... E. M. Forster
Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit? E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. E. M. Forster
In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him. E. M. Forster
One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew..."
He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to..."
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea E. M. Forster
Not even to herself dare she blame Helen. She could not assess her trespass by any moral code; it was everything or nothing. Morality can tell us that murder is worse than stealing, and group most sins in an order all must approve, but it cannot group Helen. The surer its pronouncements on this point, the surer may we be that morality is not speaking. Christ was evasive when they questioned Him. It is those that cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone. E. M. Forster

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