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E. M. Forster Biography

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society, notably A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), which brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.

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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Everlasting, Like, Room With A View, Side, Sides, Yes

The strong are so stupid.

Strength, Strong, Stupid

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Emergencies, Expense, Joy, Life, Preparation, Prepared

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Cared, Death, Horizon, Humanity, Pursuit

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

Equality, Equally, Everyone, Love, Want, Wrong

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Deals, Men, Multiplicity, Play, Theatrical, Two

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Act, Long, Love, People, Running, Truth

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

Doe, Literature, Lower, Organization, Organized, Public

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

Beautiful, Depths, Inspirational, Life, Meaning, Spread

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

Atheism, History, Nature, Novelists, People, Trying

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Children, Good, Good Luck, Literature, Quarrelling, Safe

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

Adheres, Class, Dignified, Fact, Support, Worry

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Love, Love Is, Moments, Seldom, Thinking, World

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Sorrow, Trying, World, Invent, Enough

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Generally, Like, Like Me, People, Persecuted

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Accustomed, Advised, Grows, Understood, Unusual

Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

Bodies, Enemy, Exact, Heart, Meet, Real

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Literature, Men, Objects, Poetry, Resides

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

Comfortable, Impossible, Journey, Real, Soul

Only connect!. . . Only connect the prose and the passion.

Classic, Connect, Howards End, Passion, Prose

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