Norman Douglas
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George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 - 7 February 1952) British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.
Norman Douglas spent the years from 1894 to 1896 in diplomatic service in Russia but resigned from the foreign service in 1896. South Wind (1917), which is set on Nepenthe, an invented Mediterranean island much like Capri, satirizes everything from colonial history to conventional morality. Other works include Old Calabria (1915), In the Beginning (1927), and Good-bye to Western Culture (1930). Written in a witty, conversational style, all Douglas's works reveal his erudition and his genuine appreciation of the Mediterranean area.
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- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Get these fucking nuns away from me.
- (Last words)
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