M. Forster
M. Forster
people want sensitive
The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
photography children passion
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available...
mazes conscious hard
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.
people negative needs
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
hate stupidity petty
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
fate looks might
It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
noses boots absence
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
class manners gentility
For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
real class drawing
But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.
obsession purity obsessed
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
drama sometimes life-is
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
white race grey
The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
law erasmus moses
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
mother tired dark
Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.