One of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century.. Anglo-French writer and historian
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Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing Go to Quote / Comment
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Go to Quote / Comment
The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,... Go to Quote / Comment
It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. Go to Quote / Comment
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise. Go to Quote / Comment