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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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London
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Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
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He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought Am I led am I leading? Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
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