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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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 Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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They had nothing in common but the English language.
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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
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Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
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No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
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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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You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
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This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
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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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He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought Am I led am I leading? Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
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Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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