"I didn't like him a bit. He was a poseur. He was married to this woman who was very pretty. My husband and I were asked to see them, and my husband roamed around the flat and there were endless photographs of T. S. Eliot and bits of his poetry done in embroidery by pious American ladies, and only one picture of his wife, and that was when she was getting married. Henry pointed it out to me and said, "I don't think I like that man.""
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Rebecca West, interviewed by Marina Warner, "The Art of Fiction No. 65", The Paris Review, no. 79 (Spring 1981)
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