English novelist E. M. Forster was born in London (1879). He grew up the son of an affluent family in an old house the English countryside. After he inherited some money that made it unnecessary to earn a living, Forster began traveling around Europe and writing novels about the English social classes. In just five years he published four novels, including Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908) and Howard's End (1910). Then he wrote nothing for fourteen years while he worked for the Red Cross in Egypt during World War I and then traveled to India.
When he got back from India, Forster published A Passage to India (1924) which many consider his masterpiece, about a young British woman named Adela Quested, traveling in India, who falsely accuses an Indian man of attempted rape and then later retracts her accusation.
A Passage to India was Forster's most successful novel to date. He was at the height of his career. And so it was a surprise to everyone that, though he lived for almost fifty more years, he never published another novel.
*. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
*If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
*What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
*Unless we remember we cannot understand
*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 got ourselves.
*I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
*What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
*Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
*I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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