He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.
E.M. ForsterIf I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E.M. ForsterTags: inspirational friendship honour
Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.
E.M. ForsterTags: attitude consequences idleness
Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.
E.M. ForsterTags: life philosophy forster where-angels-fear-to-tread em-forster
Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds. The storm had been working up not for three days as he supposed, but for six years. It had brewed in the insecurities of being where no eye pierces, his surroundings had thickened it. It had burst and he had not died. The brilliancy of day was around him, he stood upon the mountain range that overshadows youth, he saw.
E.M. ForsterHardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
E.M. ForsterTags: art writing literature
You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on.
E.M. ForsterWe know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.
E.M. ForsterI seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.
E.M. ForsterOnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E.M. ForsterTags: writing evil good writer
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