By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E. M. ForsterI have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
E. M. ForsterIt so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.
E. M. ForsterIn time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.
E. M. Forster