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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 book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
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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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A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
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Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
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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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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
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Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
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English literature is a flying fish.
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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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I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
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Of course he despised the world as a whole every thoughtful man should it is almost a test of refinement.
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Riposte of that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical, Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
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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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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
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