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E. M. Forster Quotes

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.
E. M. Forster

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: English
Born: January 1, 1879
Died: June 7, 1970

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Select E. M. Forster Quotations

Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. Forster

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

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. Forster

No one is India.
E. M. Forster

Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster

I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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Acknowledge, Better, Changed, Even, Hold, Immutable, Our, Own, Slow, Such, Vanity