“I used to be surprised and shocked because old people accepted the calamities and deaths of their old friends with seeming equanimity. Now I realise that, had they not done so, they would have gone mad.”
James Lees-Milne, diary, November 25, 1975
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“I used to be surprised and shocked because old people accepted the calamities and deaths of their old friends with seeming equanimity. Now I realise that, had they not done so, they would have gone mad.”
James Lees-Milne, diary, November 25, 1975
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