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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

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Life, Writing, May

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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

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Character, Curves, Ideas

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A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

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Lakes, Cities, Chicago

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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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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

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Men, Towns, Lost

"Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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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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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

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Character, House, Chess

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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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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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People, Like Me, Persecuted

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

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Hurt, Fear, People

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Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

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Doe, Guarantees, Masterpiece

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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

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Sympathy, Ifs

E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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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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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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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

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Literature, England, Human Nature

E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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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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Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

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Writing, Tyrants, Savages

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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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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Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

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Knowledge, Science, Long

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.299, Xist Publishing

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The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

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People, Want, Sensitive

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

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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

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Fate, Agreement, Literature

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The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.

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Aunt, Years, Secret

E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.861, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

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Thinking, Play, Effort

E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.482, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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