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Off Quotes by E. M. Forster
- A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
- An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put…
- A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like…
- Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
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