“Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Mark Twain on Jane Austen, from The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History.
Speaking of prejudice, here’s Gore Vidal on Truman Capote:
“He’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.”
Hat tip: The Dish
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