"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."

-- E. M. Forster

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“Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.”
“But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.”
“It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.”
“For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.”
“Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?”
“Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.”
“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press
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