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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I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. – 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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God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. – W.E. Channing

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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I get up early in the morning, 4 oclock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, thats enough. In the afternoon, I run. – Haruki Murakami

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