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1856–1931 Ireland
Frank Harris (February 14, 1856 – August 27, 1931) was a controversial journalist, biographer and fiction-writer, born James Thomas Harris in Ireland, who took US citizenship in 1921. He is best remembered for his friendship with Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, and for his scandalous and sometimes true autobiography, My Life and Loves.
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Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.
"Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," [Wilde] said laughing, "so education is the curse of the acting classes."
Oscar Wilde (1916)
Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.
Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932)
Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!
A. I. Tobin and Elmer Gertz Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931)
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
George Jean Nathan The World of George Jean Nathan (1952)
My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me, I would have had to submit.
Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932)
Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.
Bernard Shaw (1931)
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