The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine …

E. M. Forster
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. ✨ E. M. Forster: A New Life. Book by Wendy Moffat, p. 174, April 4, 2011.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality. ✨ E. M. Forster (2010). A P … ▶
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