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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
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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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A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
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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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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
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One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
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This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.
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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
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The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
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Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.
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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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