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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.   Stevenson, Robert Louis


 

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Excerpt from The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson · This quote is tagged Acceptance · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation · Help your friends discover QB

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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 - December 3 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov and others. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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