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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.

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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Essayist
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Edward Morgan Forster
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