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“Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.”

Life Philosophy Forster Em Forster Where Angels Fear To Tread

Book:Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title character blurts out his truth, 'I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.' It must have felt that way when Forster came of sexual age in the last years of the 19th century: seriously risky and dangerously blurt-able. The public cry had caught Wilde, exposed and arrested him, broken him in prison. He was one face of anxiety to Forster; his mother was another. As long as she lived (and they lived together until she died, when he was 66), he couldn't let her know.”

Romance Secrets Coming Out Mothers Homosexuality 19th Century Gay Men Oscar Wilde Sexual Orientation Closeted Em Forster Maurice Novel

Author:Michael Levenson

“Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience onto the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.”

Life Forster A Room With A View Em Forster

Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View