William Bolitho Ryall Quotes

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The adventurer is within us, and he contests for our favor with the social man we are obliged to be. These two sorts of life are incompatible; one we hanker after, the other we are obliged to. There is no other conflict so deep and bitter as this.

William Bolitho Ryall

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

William Bolitho Ryall

An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

William Bolitho Ryall

William Bolitho Ryall

William Bolitho Ryall

Born: January, 1891

Died: June 2, 1930 (aged 39)

Bio: William Bolitho Ryall was a South African journalist, writer and biographer who was a valued friend of prominent writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Noël Coward, Walter Lippman and Walter Duranty.

Known for:

Twelve against the gods (1929)
Italy Under Mussolini (1926)
Camera Obscura (1930)
Twelve Against
Murder for profit (1926)

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