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Edward Morgan Forster Quotes
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Famous Edward Morgan Forster Quotations
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Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 - 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect"
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- I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. Edward Morgan Forster »
- I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. Edward Morgan Forster »
- In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. Edward Morgan Forster »
- The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave. Edward Morgan Forster »
- They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important. Edward Morgan Forster »
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