"M. [Forster] says he would much rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave..."
— E. M. Forster

January 1, 1970

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Alice Forster, in an 1883 letter cited in E. M. Forster: The growth of the novelist (1879-1914) (Volume 1 of E. M. Forster: A Life), by Philip Nicholas Furbank. published 1977 by Secker & Warburg.