Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Robert Aickman
Born: June 27, 1914
Died: February 26, 1981 (aged 66)
Bio: Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a conservationist, he is notable for co-founding the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system.
Known for:
- Cold Hand in Mine (1975)
- The wine-dark sea
- Dark Entries (1964)
- The Unsettled Dust
- The Late Breakfasters (1964)








