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No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

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Men, Facts, He Man

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

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Creativity, Two, Perfect

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

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Art, Perfect, Facts

E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

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Real, Love You, Romantic Love

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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

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Finding Happiness, Should, Boxes

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.399, Delphi Classics

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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

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Organization, Doe, Literature

"What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

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Shields, Insult, Room With A View

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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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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Sides, Room With A View, Everlasting

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

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Doe, Guarantees, Masterpiece

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The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

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Age, Horror, Middle

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...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

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Changed

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

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Friendship, Writing, Finals

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.42, RosettaBooks

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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

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Literature, Taste, Majestic

E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.81, 谷月社

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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

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Play, Missing, Exciting

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

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Lying, Suffering, Atheism

E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

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Magic, Identity, Elbows

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

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Love, Mean, People

E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

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Mind, Vices, Literature

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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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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Memories, Stupid, People

E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...

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Mazes, Conscious, Hard

"The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

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Men, Literature, Objects

"Commonplace Book".

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No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

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Imagination, Guilt, Disease

E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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People, Speak, Difficult

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

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Chance, Novel, Humans

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.241, RosettaBooks

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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Evil, Literature, Goodness

E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.18, Stanford University Press

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Born: January 1, 1879
Died: June 7, 1970
Occupation: Novelist
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