"So long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend"
Robert Louis Stevenson
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, including Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. [1] 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.
(luckily a friend pointed out.. yes, this is from wikipedia, but the quote was sms-ed to me by a friend and I did know who the heck Robert Louis Stevenson was.)
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