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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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You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
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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?
E. M. Forster
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.
E. M. Forster
Of course he despised the world as a whole every thoughtful man should it is almost a test of refinement.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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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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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
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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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He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought Am I led am I leading? Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. Forster
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
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