Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911) Hungarian-American newspaper publisher
Brian, Denis. Pulitzer: A Life, p. 377. John Wiley and Sons, Oct 1, 2001
“One can touch a living soul through a curtain of vice and crime no matter how dense and dark: but vulgarity is an insurmountable barrier.”
— Francois Mauriac, book Vipers' Tangle
On atteint aisément une âme vivante à travers les crimes, les vices les plus tristes, mais la vulgarité est infranchissable.
Le Nœud de vipères (1932), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol. 2 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 190; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Knot of Vipers (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1985) p. 193.
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