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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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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
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I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
E. M. Forster
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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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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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
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I do not believe in Belief.
E. M. Forster
The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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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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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. Forster
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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