• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

  Source: Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) A Book That Influenced Me

  E. M. Forster
  English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist 1879-1970
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2. ourselves
3. those
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. by : E. M. Forster

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