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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
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Edward Morgan Forster
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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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 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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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English literature is a flying fish.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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