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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
E. M. Forster
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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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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Of course he despised the world as a whole every thoughtful man should it is almost a test of refinement.
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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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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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It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.
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