87 ordspråk av E. M. Forster

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E. M. Forster föddes den 1 januari 1879 och dog den 7 juni 1970 - English writer
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 A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

 All men are equal - that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

 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.

 American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum

 At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

 Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

 Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

 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.

 Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

 Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

 I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

 I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

 I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.

 I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.

 I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.


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