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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 453de67 | Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful. | E. M. Forster | ||
| d9b3dd3 | A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today. | everyday gratitude media | E.M. Forster | |
| e7a8801 | I love folklore and all festering superstitions. | folklore howards-end superstition | E.M. Forster | |
| f2f101c | But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak. | silent talking | E.M. Forster | |
| 628ea81 | Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5fe0751 | Oh, horrible--worst of all--worse than death, when you have made a little clearing in the wilderness, planted your little garden, let in your sunlight, and then the weeds creep in again! | E.M. Forster | ||
| 3ce184e | You care for me a little bit, I do think, but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8976362 | This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history." | E.M. Forster | ||
| e2a9ebe | 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 you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit? | morals values | E.M. Forster | |
| 4261af5 | Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ae5c962 | England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary motion, blew stronger against her rising seas. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 88b02da | I don't think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 575d100 | Tulips were a tray of jewels. | description e-m-forster figurative-language flowers howards-end metaphor tulips | E.M. Forster | |
| 018d439 | Then she turned westward, to gaze at the swirling gold. Just where the river rounded the hill the sun caught it. Fairyland must lie above the bend, and its precious liquid was pouring towards them past Charles's bathing shed. | description e-m-forster fairyland howards-end lovely nature sunlight | E.M. Forster | |
| 1764b06 | How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself--hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth--their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air. | conflict e-m-forster expectations-vs-reality howards-end love the-world truth | E.M. Forster | |
| a6a6e51 | And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power. | character-building human illusion novel novel-writing | E.M. Forster | |
| 943a6d9 | I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in every one, even if you do not approve of them. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e79eef1 | No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5fa552d | Oh, Mr Hall, what an ungallant remark. Look at her lovely hair.' 'I like short hair best.' 'Why?' 'Because I can stroke it-' and he began to cry. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 69fdbef | No, it is better not to risk a second interview. I shall always look back on this talk with you as one of the finest things in my life. Really. I mean this. We can never repeat. It has done me real good, and there we had better leave it." "That's rather a sad view of life, surely." "Things so often get spoiled." "I know," flashed Helen. "But people don't." | e-m-forster howards-end never-again once-in-a-lifetime preservation remember sad spoiled | E.M. Forster | |
| d74188c | This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning. | pseudo scholar | E.M. Forster | |
| d74f21d | He is rather a peculiar man." Again he hesitated, and then said gently: "I think he would not take advantage of your acceptance, nor expect you to show gratitude. He has the merit--if it is one--of saying exactly what he means. He has rooms he does not value, and he thinks you would value them. He no more thought of putting you under an obligation than he thought of being polite. It is so difficult--at least, I find it difficult--to underst.. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 6cea261 | E.M. Forster, who said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying his friend, he hoped he'd have the courage to betray his country. | Robert B. Parker | ||
| f591d14 | She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person. | E.M. Forster | ||
| f8d804c | I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere. | E.M. Forster | ||
| f4d3e7c | The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, "That is your friend," and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught him tenderness. He could die for such a friend, he would allow such a friend to die for him; they would make any sacrifice for each other, and count the world nothing, neither death nor distance nor crossness could part them, because "this is.. | dreams lgbt love | E.M. Forster | |
| bd92a17 | Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ae20d0f | I believe in aristocracy, though--if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power ... but ... of the sensitive, the considerate.... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them p.. | Elaine N. Aron | ||
| 9c41d85 | You mustn't put off what you think right," said Hamidullah. "That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things." | E.M. Forster | ||
| 09924e5 | Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got. | gratitude | Robert Hellenga | |
| c36c574 | People say that God works in mysterious ways when they really mean that life, or something in their own lives, doesn't make any sense, but I think that's wrong. I think it means that we can't make any sense out of life until we give up our deepest hopes, until we stop trying to arrange everything to suit us. But once we do, or are forced to . . . That's what's mysterious. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| ce4e282 | Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows. | death-and-dying inspiration | Robert Hellenga | |
| 5cc7caa | There was a time I didn't know your name Why should I worry, cry in vain but now she's gone, and I don't worry cause I'm sittin' on top of the world. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| 2f5c727 | The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| 0b9301c | Wallace Stegner was a man who lived under the obligation of trying his best to be a "good man," and his writing was part and parcel of that effort. For him, the individual, insofar as his or her capabilities allow, must not only take charge of his or her own destiny, but take on the responsibility of contributing to the welfare of others in family, community and society." -- | Jackson J. Benson | ||
| 15dfb7d | And all they see is a mash-up of naked prisoners and an American girl in fatigues standing there giving a thumbs-up. As I write this, the United States of America is still a city on a hill; and it's still shining--because we never turn off the lights in our torture prisons. That's how we carry out the sleep deprivation. | abu-ghraib city-on-the-hill | Sarah Vowell | |
| e3c53fa | a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master. | leadership-traits self-respect | Sarah Vowell | |
| 8520d73 | Freedom of the press, the surest guaranty of the rights of man. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 487548c | As if I was never nicknamed 'Wednesday' as in 'Adams'. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 1c759ce | I have this recurring nightmare in which I have to move back in with my old college roommates. I'll admit, that's what I was expecting to find at Oneida. The 19th century equivalent of sharing a house with the friend who brought home a crazy drifter to sleep on our couch - a man who claimed the local car dealership was built out of 'needles nourishing the earth'. The week before I went to Oneida, I had that claustrophobic dream again - that.. | muffin recurring | Sarah Vowell | |
| 23c1d13 | No one recorded what those marches were, though decades later there was an apocryphal and later-debunked story the one of the songs the British played was the on-the-nose "The World Turned Upside Down." | american-revolution hamilton | Sarah Vowell | |
| 6bc6937 | You think this is a mess? New York is a mess! Why should it matter if I spill anything inside? The whole city is a dump! I'm not pretending the inside is any different from the outside anymore! | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 10f8298 | His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 0992a98 | The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to look through his childhood photo album and wonder why all his vacations with his aunt took place at places like the McKinley Memorial and Wounded Knee. And yet here we are. Powell's cemetery was just too close to Cinderella's Castle for me to pass up. | history sightseeing vacations | sarah vowell |