Richard Ellmann Quotes

• Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

  Richard Ellmann

  Depth, Surface, Dies

  Richard Ellmann (2013). “Oscar Wilde”, p.510, Vintage

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• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

  Richard Ellmann

  Artist, Men, Soul

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• Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

  Richard Ellmann

  History, Different, Literature

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