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Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
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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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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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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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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