M. Forster
M. Forster
spring fighting
Don't go fighting against the Spring.
love college oxford
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
children class literature
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
romantic room-with-a-view muddle
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
speak deserted
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
art thinking race
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
writing ideas novelists
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
character perfect patterns
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
book littles path
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
people society literature
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
book way discovering
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
world kingdoms music-is
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
heart men way
Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
fashion clothes deep-life
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.