Quote by E.M. Forster
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does ap

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

Other quotes by E.M. Forster

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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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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One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. – Mo Rocca

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Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. – John Clayton

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Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. – Whitley Strieber

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The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. – James Irwin

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You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. – Phyllis Gotlieb

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. – Isaac Asimov

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But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Posts threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. – Donna Rice

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Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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