"The real duty of the writer is through the moral standards of the individual. Politics, like sex, is only a by-product of what the essential person is. If you are mean or selfish or cruel it will come out in your politics. What matters is you are the sort of person who wouldn’t behave like that. The writer has no duty except to address himself to the individual and to display to the individual the standards he thinks he ought to have... "
"...I would want people to think I was on the right side. I don’t mean politically, but humanly speaking, because there’s a lot of stuff being written now where you feel people are deliberately on the wrong side. I mean you can’t sweep human cruelty and evil under the carpet you know, you’ve got to tell people it’s there. But sometimes you feel really people are siding with it you know, and I wouldn’t want to do that." ~Mary Renault
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In Their Own Words, is a series featuring interviews with many of Renault's characters.
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Theban Band certainly have the talent for the most wonderful pictures, so thank you for this link and for reminding me again of their artwork. :D They usually ask to link only to their homepage
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