M. Forster
M. Forster
real heart enemy
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
love men ideas
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
men towns gray
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
running views long
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
queens marching-on appreciate
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence. ... To appreciate a mystery, part of the mind must be left behind, brooding, while the other part goes marching on.
life nice being-in-love
I love love I love being in love I don't care what it does to me The Format, in "Inches and Failing". Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.
inspirational inspirational-love soul
He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
character fighting artist
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
age growing emotion
Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
men trying ifs
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
mistake earth life-is
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
may i-may-not-be be-you
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
changed
...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.
long risk great-risk
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.