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An author introduced to people who have read--or who say that they have read--his books, feels always like a man taken for the first time to be shown to his future wife's relations. They are very pleasant. They try to put him at his ease. But he knows instinctively they are disappointed with him.
~ Idle Ideas in 1905
She asked me during the entree--with a light laugh, as I afterwards recalled--what I thought, candidly, of the last book of a certain celebrated authoress. I told her, and a coldness sprang up between us. She happened to be the certain celebrated authoress;
~ Idle Ideas in 1905
Shun this roaring gingerbread fair that calls itself, forsooth, the 'World of art and letters.'
~ Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow