Rose Macaulay
Born: 07-31-1881
Rose Macaulay was a renowned British author and essayist, born in 1881. With a career spanning over four decades, she is celebrated for her wit and keen observations of society. Her critically acclaimed novel, "The Towers of Trebizond," won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1956. Macaulay's extensive body of work includes both fiction and non-fiction, reflecting her deep engagement with themes of travel, religion, and modernity.
Book summaries for books written by Rose Macaulay
Quotes
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Expeditions are escapism. The itch to explore has surrendered to the ease of satiety and the pampered languor engendered by the age of comfort.
If you want to get away from a crowd, you must go out of the crowd.
Travel is the art form available to Everyman.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself.
It is a curious thing...that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolute and eternal, but when we have paradise no one will be able to enter it.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.