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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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London
England
Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
EM 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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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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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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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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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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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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