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Kingsley Martin

Kingsley Martin Biography

Journalist

Kingsley Martin (1897-1969) was an accomplished journalist whose career spanned across significant historical periods, including World War I, World War II, and the early Cold War. Known for his insightful analysis and impartial reporting, Martin's work had a profound impact on public opinion.

Kingsley Martin (1897-1969) was an accomplished journalist whose career spanned across significant historical periods, including World War I, World War II, and the early Cold War. Known for his insightful analysis and impartial reporting, Martin's work had a profound impact on public opinion.

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“The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment”

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Author:Kingsley Martin

“I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.”

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Book:Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956

Source: Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956

“A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.”

Way Mind May Ideas Process Virtue Disease Valuable Acquire Germs

Author:Kingsley Martin

“One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.”

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Author:Kingsley Martin

About the Author

Born: 1897
Died: 1969
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 4

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