Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. E. M. Forster More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. E. M. Forster remembered When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her. E. M. Forster dust race perfection The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world. E. M. Forster music-is kingdoms world What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster reading literature men If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run E. M. Forster running long people School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible. E. M. Forster lovely world school I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. E. M. Forster holiday christmas years The historian records, but the novelist creates. E. M. Forster records novelists writing Money pads the edges of things. E. M. Forster pads edges One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. E. M. Forster money temptation evil Don't go fighting against the Spring. E. M. Forster fighting spring Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand. E. M. Forster sanity passion doe Human beings have their great chance in the novel. E. M. Forster novel chance humans Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. Forster creativity creative writing Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. E. M. Forster novelists writing ideas Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong. E. M. Forster niece sky rose This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms. E. M. Forster fighting love-you lying 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 effort play thinking A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. E. M. Forster novel writing giving At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill. E. M. Forster hills stars night
