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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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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It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
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We may divide characters into flat and round.
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does. He thought. Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
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Of course he despised the world as a whole every thoughtful man should it is almost a test of refinement.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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