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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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More quotes by E. M. Forster
Love is always being given where it is not required.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
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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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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
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I do not believe in Belief.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something vulgarity, concealing something.
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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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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 work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
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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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Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.
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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.
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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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Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
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England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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