“‘Isn’t it sad,’ he said, ‘that writers who, in their youth, break their backs to escape the bourgeoisie, end up by imitating them—at least the wealthy ones.’”
Siegfried Sassoon (quoted in S.N. Behrman, People in a Diary: A Memoir)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“‘Isn’t it sad,’ he said, ‘that writers who, in their youth, break their backs to escape the bourgeoisie, end up by imitating them—at least the wealthy ones.’”
Siegfried Sassoon (quoted in S.N. Behrman, People in a Diary: A Memoir)
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