Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MolièreBut re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.
Thomas KeneallyTags: friendship literature australia modernism nastiness australian-literature patrick-white voss-novel
The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.
James TarantoTags: environmentalism jerks meanness nastiness sanctimony the-guardian
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