M. Forster
M. Forster
liking-someone literature reason
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
land people literature
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
romantic room-with-a-view muddle
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
life-is-like violin life-is
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
remembered
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
sympathy congratulations sincere
'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.
helping lord skepticism
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
integrity character class
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
get-well soul secret
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
unusual grows understood
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
obsession purity obsessed
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
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.
mistake humility hypocrisy
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.