Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.” — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
