“ It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: lov… E.M. Forster
“ It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the s… E.M. Forster
“ It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted. E.M. Forster
“ I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure. E.M. Forster
“ Human beings have their great chance in the novel. They say to the novelist: Recreate us if you like, but we must come in, and the novelist’s problem, as we have seen all along, is to give them a good… E.M. Forster
“ He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and gener… E.M. Forster
“ The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The t… E.M. Forster
“ The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. E.M. Forster
“ Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. E.M. Forster
“ So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left… E.M. Forster
“ Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't -… E.M. Forster
“ I’ve often thought about it, Helen. It’s one of the most interesting things in the world. The truth is that there is a great outer life that you and I have never touched—a life in which telegrams and… E.M. Forster
