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You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
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
England
Edward Morgan Forster
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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 believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
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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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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something vulgarity, concealing something.
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