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Elspeth Huxley
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“I found it curiously exciting to hear an account of the Benin massacre of 1897 and its sequel from one who had taken part. It is a story that still has power to amaze and horrify, as well as to remind us that the British had motives for pushing into Africa other than the intention to exploit the natives and glorify themselves.”
Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Four Guineas (London: The Reprint Society, 1954) ch. 4, p. 222. See also: Felix N. Roth · A. M. Boisragon
“Nothing happened — and that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.”
Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source