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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Even Get Soft Stand You

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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Art Incomplete Life Never Often Sadness Should

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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Admit Because Cheers Criticism Democracy Permits Two Variety

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Caste Fatal Ideas

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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

Topics: About Condition Great Great Literature Literature Man Reads Towards Who Wonderful Wrote

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: All Women Charm Decoration Men Most Nearly Women

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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.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Betray Betraying Between Choose Country Friend Guts Had Hope My Friend Should

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

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Agreements Fate Fools Perhaps Sign Temperament

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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Afterwards Incredible Inevitable Most Quarrels Time

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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Always Around Blood Come Desert Distrust Feel Great Great Men Little Man Men Often Pleasure Pool Produce Them Too Uniformity

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1879

Died: June 7th, 1970

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