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I suggest that 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.
Category: Books and Reading Author: E M Forster
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Category: Books and Reading Author: E M Forster
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Category: Faith Author: E M Forster
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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.
Category: History Author: E M Forster
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I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
Category: Holidays Author: E M Forster
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Category: Literature Author: E M Forster
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Category: Poetry Author: E M Forster
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Category: Trust Author: E M Forster
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