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E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
E. M. Forster
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.
E. M. Forster
They had nothing in common but the English language.
E. M. Forster
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
E. M. Forster
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
E. M. Forster
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
E. M. Forster
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. Forster
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.
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Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
E. M. Forster
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. Forster
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. Forster
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
E. M. Forster
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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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.
E. M. Forster
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. Forster
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
E. M. Forster
