Quote by E.M. Forster
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is

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. – E.M. Forster

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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – 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. – E.M. Forster

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports. – Bern Williams

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I believe in local control of education. – Russ Feingold

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