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A man's style is intrinsic and private with him like his voice or his gesture, partly a matter of inheritance, partly of cultivation. It is more than a pattern of expression. It is the pattern of the soul. Maurice Valency,

Maurice Valency

No man can establish title to an idea — at most he can only claim possession. The stream of thought that irrigates the mind of each of us is a confluent of the intellectual river that drains the whole of the living universe.

Maurice Valency

Maurice Valency

Maurice Valency

Born: March 22, 1903

Died: September 28, 1996 (aged 93)

Bio: Maurice Valency was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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