I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTERSchool 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. 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. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERLet yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
E. M. FORSTERIt’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERIt is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
E. M. FORSTER