Carolina QuotesMalraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say "perhaps" or "I don't know," so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"Malraux and the Statues at Baumberg," Art News (December 1953), p. 180
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 180
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“Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7A35B374DE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7a35b374de
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