Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. Forster Quotes
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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