M. Forster

M. Forster
queens kings grief
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
struggle lust together
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
love mean people
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
rubbish literature logic
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
husband literature want
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
cheer democracies-have two
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
howards-end glorious gates
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
children good-luck world
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
art sadness should
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
asking literature causes
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
literature ought
I am certainly an ought and not a must.
squash literature ifs
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
men symphony sublime
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
real journey soul
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.