Harold Acton

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

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These are some quotes by English author Harold Acton Historian, who lived between July 5, 1904 and 1994.

Quotes by Harold Acton

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

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