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Money pads the edges of things.
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
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All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
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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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I do not believe in Belief.
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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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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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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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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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Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.
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He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
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Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
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There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
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