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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
Personality must be...
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
Source: Quoted in: Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde, ch. 21 (1987), of poet Ernest Dowson.
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.