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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
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
E Forster
EM Forster
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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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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
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Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
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Don't be mysterious there isn't the time.
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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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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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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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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
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