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Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...
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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One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
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To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge the poor cannot afford it.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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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.
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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 do not believe in Belief.
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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