Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram.
E.M. ForsterHe was interested in the sudden friendship between two women so apparently dissimilar as Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish. They were always in each other's company, with Lucy a slighted third. Miss Lavish he believed he understood, but Miss Bartlett might reveal unknown depths of strangeness, though not, perhaps, of meaning.
E.M. ForsterThe armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
E.M. ForsterFaith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch....
E.M. ForsterMost quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.
E.M. ForsterOne is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
E.M. ForsterIt is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
E.M. ForsterThe stories of Harmonius and Aristogeiton, of Phaedrus of the Theban Band were well enough for those whose hearts were empty, but no substitute for life. That Clive should occasionally prefer them puzzled him.
E.M. ForsterWas Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?
E.M. ForsterTags: friendship intimacy exhaustion coquette flirtation
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
E.M. ForsterTags: misattributed writing gustave-flaubert paul-valery
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