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“It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.”
― Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding
― Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding
“Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
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