"Roger Fry is painting me. It is too……" — E. M. Forster
"Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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