It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide to do without them again. — E M Forster Copy Share Image
“To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.” — E M Forster Copy Share
I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part… — E M Forster Copy Share
“I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things… — E M Forster Copy Share
“As I said, either friends or the country, some . . . either some very dear person or some very dear place seems necessary… — E M Forster Copy Share
It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may… — E M Forster Copy Share
“And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.” — E M Forster Copy Share
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality.… — E M Forster Copy Share
