Mark Twain highly admired Kipling. But what does Twain know about writing?
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"I am not acquainted with my own books but I know Kipling’s books. They never grow pale to me; they keep their colour; they are always fresh." Mark Twain Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known, and I know the rest. - Mark Twain on Kipling
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Yeah but they probably didn't believe in transgender rights, so they need to be completely erased from history.
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Josh is obviously a racist if he dismisses Kipling, an important Indian writer.* * Indians born in England are English, ergo Englishmen born in India are Indians. Right?
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How surprising that Josh is employed as a journalist. Journalism is the lowest form of writing.
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Lowe writes for Newsweek - a pointless mag which will go the way of Nineveh and Tyre
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Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre and Newsweek
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His poem “Tommy” is hardly pro-government PR. I suspect this clot hasn’t actually read any Kipling.
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Somehow we're supposed to believe that Maya Angelou is superior to Kipling. What a joke.
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The trend of removing of historical figures continues apace
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orwell was opposed to kipling's imperialism but in the same breath he'd call him immensely talented
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You can understand the dislike of Kipling. The tests set out in If are ones that cast a pretty harsh light on those protesting.
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Yeah, but what has he written lately.
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“If you don’t believe in __________, why would you read him?” That pretty much sums up how constrained the world of art, culture, and literature is for them.
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Someone once asked me, "How come you decided to write novels and screenplays instead of becoming a journalist?" My reply? "I couldn't dumb down enough to write Tabloid trash?"
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He made poetry accessible to one 10 year old boy. “You may talk of gin and beer when you’re quartered safe out here, and you’re sent to pennyfights and aldershotit.” 50 years later from memory.
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