“Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.”

— Elinor Glyn

S. J. Perelman "Cloudland Revisited: Tuberoses and Tigers", in The Most of S. J. Perelman (London: Mandarin, [1979] 1992) p. 282.
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British novelist and scriptwriter 1864–1943

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