I remember, the reasoning of a man determined to arrive that I tried to lull to sleep the inward voice that cried, You have no right to put on paper, to give to the public what this noble writer said to you, supposing that he was receiving a poet, not a reporter. But I heard also the voice of my chief saying, You will never succeed.
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Paul Bourget was French novelist and literary critic. Paul Charles Joseph Bourget was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Read more on Wikipedia →