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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.
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For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
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I do not believe in Belief.
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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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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.
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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
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Riposte of that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical, Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
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One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
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When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
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Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
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He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
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