Quotes from bookA Room with a View
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Variant: No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?
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“It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch.1
“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
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“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 14
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E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 3
Context: The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19
Context: It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
“… there are shadows because there are hills.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
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“… though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
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“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
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“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 2
