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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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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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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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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.
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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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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does. He thought. Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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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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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
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Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
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Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
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