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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
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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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 must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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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.
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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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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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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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Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
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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.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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