“It must be the old, darling, foolish Highlands in us, my dear, the old people and the old stupid stories they are telling us for generations round he fire, and it must be the hills about us, and the constant complaint of the sea.”
Gilian the Dreamer, ch. 5.
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Journalist, author, critic 1863–1930Related quotes

“Time was when people used to brag about how old they were -- and I am old enough to remember it.”
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

… We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we’re 86, we want to be like that …. So that’s what started it.
" Jeru the Damaja http://www.peta2.com/heroes/jeru-the-damaja/", interview by Peta2, having just released his album Divine Design (2003).

“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”
Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)

Geological Sketches (1870), ch. 2, pp. 31–32 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018968388;view=1up;seq=49