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E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
E. M. Forster
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. Forster
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. Forster
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. Forster
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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Don't be mysterious there isn't the time.
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It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
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It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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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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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.
E. M. Forster
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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