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Four Novels – Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End QUOTES

Four Novels – Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End QUOTES

1 " ...all the little dos and don'ts, the petty prejudices and snobberies, the silly sentimentalities and religious hypocrisies that made up the veneer of what so many of Forster's contemporaries considered civilization. As Forster saw it, these little things blinded people to the values of the good life. They were distractions which stood between mankind and the liberty of spirit which is one essential to any real happiness. And they blocked human communication, the basis of mutual understanding, which is the other. "Only connect" was Forster's famed motto. While we are chained to shibboleths, we are still children. We are not serious, we play with life. "

― E.M. Forster , Four Novels – Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End