Mary Renault
Mary Renault
Mary Renault, born Eileen Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 September 1905
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How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
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Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...
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It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
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To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
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You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
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Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom.