“ I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. E.M. Forster
“ You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all. No—for the other h… E.M. Forster
“ I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked,… E.M. Forster
“ Belief’s always right.. It’s all right and it’s also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he’d die. Only isn’t it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to… E.M. Forster
“ 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 everyt… E.M. Forster
“ The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. E.M. Forster
“ Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. E.M. Forster
“ Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul.... E.M. Forster
“ It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. E.M. Forster
“ The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the qu… E.M. Forster
“ The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigate… E.M. Forster
