nursery-disease

Updated: May 5, 2025

Then the critics had been insinuating that I could do only Spanish things I suppose I had overdone the castanet business; it's a nursery-disease we all go through and I wanted to show that I had plenty more shot in my locker. Don't you get up every morning meaning to prove you're equal to Balzac or Thackeray?

Edith Wharton - The Greater Inclination