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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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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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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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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
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Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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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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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
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There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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