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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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 you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
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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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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
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Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.
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