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Sir Desmond MacCarthy
(20 May 1877 - 7 Jun 1952)
English writer and critic , regarded as the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his time.
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Science Quotes by Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1 quote)
Present experience is a dream; the future a distraction; only memory can unlock the meaning of life.
— Sir Desmond MacCarthy
In 'Thomas Hardy', Saturday Review of Literature (1 Dec 1928), 5, 422. Rearranged by Anne Ellis for epigraph to Chap. 1 as “The present is a distraction; the future a dream; only memory can unlock the meaning of life” in Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman (1931), 1, cited as “Desmond MacCarthy. (Rearranged by A.E.)”. The Anne Ellis variant is used as an epigraph attributed to Desmond MacCarthy, in Hans Cloos, 'Ship’s Wake', Conversation With the Earth. The variant also appears quoted in a conversation between characters in Chap. 31, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune: Dune Chronicles #4 (1981).