M. Forster
M. Forster
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.
lying mirrors historical
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
memories stupid people
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
sympathy ifs
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
art taken men
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
wall war nerves
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
character vanity changed
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
running strong men
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.