So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody c...an say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, bel...ong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are "sides" and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster a highly ornamental pot. As people mature, they cease to believe in sides or in Headmasters or in highly ornamental pots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »