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 More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it. E. M. Forster self war mean Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief. E. M. Forster belief lord helping People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. E. M. Forster novelists wish people 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, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven. E. M. Forster squares heaven thinking He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms. E. M. Forster romantic-love real love-you I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. E. M. Forster greatness men blood 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 love-is world thinking Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer E. M. Forster fragments passion love No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. E. M. Forster agnostic literature men At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards. E. M. Forster care may needs Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong . E. M. Forster personal-relationships 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 voice beautiful thinking All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas. E. M. Forster umbrella equal men Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. E. M. Forster thoughtful men world It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder. E. M. Forster novelists stories time It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. E. M. Forster names men mean He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . . E. M. Forster ought ends christianity Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. E. M. Forster realizing earth mistake Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. E. M. Forster sublime symphony men Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. E. M. Forster believe lying people
