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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for.... It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. repr. In Two Cheers for Democracy, "The United States" (1951). "Impressions of the United States," Listener (London, Sept. 4, 1947).)
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One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "In My Library," pt. II (1949), in Two Cheers for Democracy (1951).)
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me—a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "Liberty in England," pt. I (1935), in Abinger Harvest (1936).
Originally an address at the Congrθs International des Ιcrivains.)
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Margaret Schlegel, in Howard's End, ch. 7 (1910).)
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Margaret Schlegel, in Howard's End, ch. 22 (1910).
"Only connect" also appears as epigraph to the book, of which Goronwy Rees has written, in A Chapter of Accidents (1972): "It could be said that these two words, so seductive in their simplicity, so misleading in their ambiguity, had more influence in shaping the emotional attitudes of the English governing class between the two world wars than any other single phrase in the English language.")
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Panic and emptiness! Panic and emptiness!
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Howards End, ch. 5 (1910).)
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Oxford is—Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Howard's End, ch. 12 (1910).)
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