"The only test of a work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own."
— Literature

January 1, 1970

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Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season, 1978. Cited in The Quotable Writer, William A. Gordon, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000.