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E. M. Forster Quotes

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English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made. E. M. Forster
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom. E. M. Forster
I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you. E. M. Forster
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle. E. M. Forster
Don’t you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s have both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other. E. M. Forster
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. E. M. Forster
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within? E. M. Forster
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England. E. M. Forster
I feel to you as Pippa to her fianc, only far more nobly, far more deeply, body and soul, no starved medievalism of course, only a – a particular harmony of body and soul that I don’t think women have even guessed. But you know. E. M. Forster
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. E. M. Forster
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so..."
I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them. E. M. Forster
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in..."
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent," said..."
Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent," said Margaret.- Howard's End E. M. Forster

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