"In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."

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AgnosticsAcademics from the United KingdomComposers from England
Original Language: English

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Said to Sylvia Townsend Warner two weeks before his death; published in William Maxwell (ed.) The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1982) p. 168.