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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Back Creed Day Every Hard Lies May One Day Required Something Suffer Terrible Which Worshipper

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

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Topics: Always Because Book Got Long Tends Through

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Behave Conception Dead Experience Experiences Gain Genius He His Historian Historians How Men Move Must Only Otherwise Personal Personal Experience Some Through Use Who Will World

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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Between Concealing Distinction His Notable Revealing Something Very Vulgarity

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Always Causes Creative Greater Represent Than Writers

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

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Topics: Else Information Itself Nothing Poem Points Something Something Else Together True

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Accepts Beauty Best Does Due Emotion Face Her Little Look Much Ought Position Prima Reminds She Suits Surprised Too Too Much Us Who

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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Good Gracious Logic Rubbish

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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

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Topics: Everlasting Side Why Yes

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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Beethoven Ear Ever Fifth Man Most Noise Sublime Symphony

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1879

Died: June 7th, 1970

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