Edward Morgan Forster



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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."

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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

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"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable."

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"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger."

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"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."

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

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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

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"The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave."

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"They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important."

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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake."
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