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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Birth Death Facts Five Food Human Human Life Life Love Main Sleep

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I am certainly an ought and not a must.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Am Certainly Must Ought I Am

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

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Topics: Acknowledge Better Changed Characters Even Hold Our Own Slow Vanity

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

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Topics: Art Assumes Existence Exists Fact Indifferent Perfect Person Spectator Work

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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Topics: Ceases Courage Either Entails Life

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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 believe in Art for Art's sake.

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Topics: Art Believe In My Opinion Internal Material Matters Objects Only Opinion Order Possess Sake Though Universe Why Works

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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

Topics: Am Deals Experience Feeling Full Give Give Me Leave Life Made Man Me Meal Multiplicity Play Seeing Sort Theatrical Two Used Which Women I Am

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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

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Topics: Concerned Only Poet Poor Statistician Unthinkable Very

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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

Topics: Am Down Got Irritate Like Me Only Paper People Person Really Think Three Types Who I Think I Am

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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.

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Topics: America Find Interesting Large Life Like Look Rather Sure Will You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1879

Died: June 7th, 1970

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