Status Updates From E.M. Forster: A Life

"I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel" jesus christ

"Only by believing in an enemy-nation have we become patriotic, just as we remained religious only so long as we could believe in a Devil."

[DH Lawrence and EM Forster sending snarky letters back and forth] the girls are fightingggggg

"Masood, he was sure, forgot him the instant he was out of his sight, and this he could bear; but was he even aware of him when they were together?" EM Forster literally INVENTED gay pining

of course Forster was the kinda weirdo who made up dramatic stories about a disfigured sailor doll that he dropped down the stairs. future author behavior