If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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. FORSTERThere are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
E. M. FORSTERIt’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTERWe must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTERIt makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERDo not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERI have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
E. M. FORSTERA poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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. FORSTERUnless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
E. M. FORSTERThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTER