E.M. Forster Quotes
He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.
I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.
Consequently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off.
She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.