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Man may be no very magnificent animal; but he was made for something better than to illustrate a theory.

— Gerald Gould

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" Instinct," as Falstaff said, " is a great matter "; but it is not the whole. Mr. Lawrence believes so much in domination and antagonism that he seems not to believe in men and women—the first act of faith that God requires of the artist.

The English Novel of To-day (1924)

I was one of the first in this country—I rather think I was quite the first—to hail in print the genius of Mr. Joyce, when, many years ago, he put forth a quiet little volume of short stories called " Dubliners." I saw in his bleak and bitter realism a reading of life.

The English Novel of To-day (1924)

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