Harold Acton quotes
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“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”
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“The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.”
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“Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.”
-- Harold Acton
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Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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