I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

E.M. Forster A Passage to India
Also known as: Edward Morgan Forster
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About E.M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 July 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it — love — nobility — big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!