Harold Acton Quotes

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography.

Birth: July 05, 1904 - Death: February 27, 1994

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

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.

Topic(s): Two , Whole , Lasts

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Topic(s): Writing , Real , Regret

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Harold Acton Quotes