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E. M. Forster
English
Novelist
Born:
Jan 1
,
1879
Died:
Jun 7
,
1970
Good
Life
Love
Man
Nothing
People
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Aldous Huxley
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
Life
Waiting
Willing
Must
Go
Us
Planned
Let Go
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster
Remember
Brainy
Unless
We Cannot
Understand
Cannot
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
E. M. Forster
Shadow
Something
Cast
Wherever
Stand
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
Long
Nothing
Run
Shape
Long Run
Feeding
Spoon
Us
Teaches
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster
Mom
Meet
Would
Would-Be
More
Various
Could
Sure
Mothers
Am
Nations
Wars
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster
Good
Daily
Nature
Sunrise
Wind
Stars
Trees
Our
Enter
Your
Lives
Daily Lives
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
Great
Man
Wonderful
Great Literature
About
Towards
Wrote
Reads
Condition
Literature
Who
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster
Life
Practice
Chronicle
Easy
Bewildering
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
Love
Tolerance
Dramatic
We Cannot
Something
Only
Civilization
Only Love
Fact
Emotional
Namely
Know
Affairs
Cannot
Public
Public Affairs
Personally
Much
Less
Rebuilding
Needed
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
Democracy
Criticism
Admit
Variety
Cheers
Because
Permits
Two
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster
Freedom
Censorship
Nervous
Past
Enough
Dangers
We Cannot
Willing
Outcome
Admit
About
She
Safely
Praise
Foresee
Get
Tucked
In The Past
Cannot
Amidst
Whose
Away
Her
Present
Nuisance
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster
Death
People
Own
Nothing
Nothingness
Our
Shall
Beyond
Well
Deaths
Differ
Even
Lives
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster
Time
Inevitable
Incredible
Most
Quarrels
Afterwards
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster
Life
Joy
Those
Emergencies
Equip
Beforehand
May
Expense
Themselves
Who
Prepared
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
Democracy
Criticism
Admit
Variety
Cheers
Because
Permits
Two
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster
Life
Courage
Entails
Ceases
Either
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster
Sunshine
Glorious
Unknown
Our
Out
Through
Adventure
Return
Pass
Them
Railway
Alas
Gates
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster
Me
People
Three
Down
Think
Types
Paper
Only
Like
Got
Am
Person
Irritate
Really
Who
Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster
Caste
Ideas
Fatal
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster
Words
Earth
House
Mansions
Many
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster
Dignity
Collective
Fire
Books
Drawn
Attain
Curtains
Night
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
Reverence
Literature
Fatal
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.
E. M. Forster
Life
Me
Man
Women
Experience
Made
Feeling
Meal
One-Man
Seeing
Give
Give Me
Sort
Deals
Am
Leave
Which
Theatrical
Full
Used
Multiplicity
Play
Two
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. Forster
Poet
Statistician
Only
Unthinkable
Concerned
Very
Poor
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster
Life
You
Will
Find
Rather
Like
Look
Sure
America
Interesting
Large
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
Distinction
Something
Concealing
Between
Vulgarity
Revealing
His
Very
Notable
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