I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.


Letter, (1950); as quoted in Thomas Mann — The Birth of Criticism (1987) by Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Thomas Mann Quotes

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be...

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be...

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be...

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be...