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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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 novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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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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Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
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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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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
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