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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970

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Slow Better Vanity Own Hold Changed

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Education Myself Sacrifice Brother

It's so perfectly Alaska to be like, 'Dad we're going to the Grammys,' and for him to be like, 'Oh, well that's great, Johnny. All right, gotta go back to work.'

Work Great Back Go Alaska Right

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Leadership Myself Mind Team Start

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Performance Slow Faithful Promise

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Stokely Carmichael

Generation Run More Breath Out Our

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

Father Mother Black White

In a way, 'On the Road's greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.

Eyes Time People Victory Road Dirty

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

You Divine Even Disdain Male

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Peace Care Lose Find Want Way

I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships.

Laugh Relationships Talk Like About

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

Believe Result You Half Between

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Love True Love You True Inside Come

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