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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster
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E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
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Edward Morgan Forster
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I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I do not believe in Belief.
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[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.
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