A Passage to India

By E.M. Forster QUOTATION: We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing.
ATTRIBUTION: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. I, ch. 4 (1924).

QUOTATION: Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce “boum.”
ATTRIBUTION: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. II, ch. 14 (1924).

QUOTATION: But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
ATTRIBUTION: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. I, ch. 8 (1924).

QUOTATION: The temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn’t want it, they said in their hundred voices, “No, not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there.”
ATTRIBUTION: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. III, ch. 37 (1924).

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