About E. M. Forster:
Edward Morgan Forster is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 13 different years.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. ForsterAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. ForsterTwo cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. ForsterThe woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. ForsterBeethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. ForsterThe English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster