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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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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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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
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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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The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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