"Just as words have two functions - information……" — E. M. Forster
"Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature..."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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