{"author":"E.M. Forster","author_id":"E.M.+Forster","total_quotes":175,"quotes":[{"text":"He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, 'This is all very well, you're clever, we know—but come!' It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, 'I'll come—I didn't know.'You can't help yourself now. You must come.'I don't want to help myself.'Come then.'He did come. He flung down all the barriers—not at once, for he did not live in a house that can be destroyed in a day.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["barriers","forster","love","lovers","maurice"],"id":3753,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["civilization","progress"],"id":4479,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["happiness","heaven","hell","love"],"id":5335,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does.' He thought. 'Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["equality","love","romance"],"id":6573,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"Adventures do occur, but not punctually.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["adventure"],"id":7206,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["gay","love"],"id":8637,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["truth"],"id":14111,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India—a hundred Indias—whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["india","poetry"],"id":14618,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["books","literature","reading","words"],"id":14844,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["emotion","lgbt","love"],"id":17874,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":175,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}