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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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They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
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No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
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