But 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. 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. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. FORSTERIt is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTEROne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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. FORSTERThe historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTERThe only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. FORSTEROne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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. FORSTERSpoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTER