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Quotation by E.M. Forster
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shall come later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. Aspects of the Novel, ch. 3 (1927).
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