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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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While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
E. M. Forster
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E. M. Forster
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge the poor cannot afford it.
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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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One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. Forster
The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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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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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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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
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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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