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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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Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
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Thomas Hardy
William Golding
William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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
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
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
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.
E. M. Forster
Good
World
Luck
Good Luck
Safe
None
Line
Children
Us
Much
Playing
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster
More
Piety
Infectious
Than
Paganism
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
Freedom
Eyes
People
Only
Allowed
Look
Practise
Been
Who
Grown-Up
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster
Man
Seek
Touch
Objects
Poetry
Sort
Resides
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster
Nature
Human Nature
Accept
Always
Been
Human
England
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