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I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
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
E Forster
EM Forster
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
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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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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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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
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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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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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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
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You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
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