Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. Forster Quotes
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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| Birth: | 1st January, 1879 |
| Death: | 7th June, 1970 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Edward Morgan Forster 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 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 ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.
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