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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
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
EM Forster
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Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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