Famous Quotes | Only connect! That was the whole...
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
- E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Attribution: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. Margaret Schlegel, in Howard’s End, ch. 22 (1910). “Only connect” also appears as epigraph to the book, of which Goronwy Rees has written, in A Chapter of Accidents (1972): “It could be said that these two words, so seductive in their simplicity, so misleading in their ambiguity, had more influence in shaping the emotional attitudes of the English governing class between the two world wars than any other single phrase in the English language.”
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