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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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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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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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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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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I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
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Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
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Riposte of that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical, Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
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[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.
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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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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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