E. M. Forster Quotes

• She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

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• He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to the half-baked mind.

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• They are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

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• Here is the heart of our island: the Chilterns, the North Downs, the South Downs radiate hence. The fibres of England unite in Wiltshire, and did we condescend to worship her, here should we erect our national shrine.

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  We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, So as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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  Topics in Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Waiting, Planned, Must, Let

• Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

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• Books have to be read; it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

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• I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

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  Topics in Country, Friendship, Inspirational

  Tags in Betraying, Friends

• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

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  Tags in Wonderful, Literature, Books, Reading

• A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to peer out.

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• After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

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• The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say “yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

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• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

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  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Believe, Sake, Objects, Material, Internal, Possess, Why, Only, Opinion, Though, Universe, Order, Matters

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Books

• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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• It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

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• How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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• A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

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• Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

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• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

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E. M. Forster (120)

Birth:	1st January, 1879
Death:	7th June, 1970
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.

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