I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and t…

E. M. Forster
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. ✨ E.M. Forster (2012). A Room with a View, p.125, Courier Corporation

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