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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
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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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