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Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
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
E Forster
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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 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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Don't be mysterious there isn't the time.
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I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
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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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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does. He thought. Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
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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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Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
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Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
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I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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