M. Forster

M. Forster
white race grey
The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
christian running jesus
[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.
time novelists stories
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.
umpires shadow room-with-a-view
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
squash literature ifs
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
knowledge science giving
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding