So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTERSo I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTERDo we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. FORSTERThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. FORSTERSpoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERWorks of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
E. M. FORSTERPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERBut it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTERThe other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
E. M. FORSTERThere’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. FORSTERTo make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. FORSTERIf we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTER