“[On Oscar Wilde:]
"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]”
―
"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]”
―
“I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
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