So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
About Harold Acton
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, history and autobiography.
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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.
Harold Acton
British writer and scholar
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.
Harold Acton
British writer and scholar