M. Forster
M. Forster
girl men room-with-a-view
Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
believe men unhappy
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.
mind atheism half
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
book want language
Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.
jobs long would-be
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
character curves ideas
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.
running character long
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
cities lakes type
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
writing tyrants savages
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
age horror middle
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
helping lord skepticism
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
sympathy congratulations sincere
'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.
life writing may
Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
men skulls fire
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.