Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal.
E.M. ForsterTag: love
He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.
E.M. ForsterTag: friendship music psychology understanding complexity artists theory musicians a-room-with-a-view puzzlement
No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?
E.M. ForsterHe seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.
E.M. ForsterTag: humor optimism stereotype clergyman
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
E.M. ForsterTag: dead where-angels-fear-to-tread
You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
E.M. ForsterTag: future science-fiction machine dystopian
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?
E.M. ForsterTag: education
There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds.
E.M. ForsterEngland was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary motion, blew stronger against her rising seas.
E.M. ForsterTag: england
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.
E.M. ForsterTag: fear imagination
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