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“An innocent youth wrote recently that he is convinced I am the greatest writer in the world (from New Zealand). A touching letter – so simple & unaffected. Another young man wrote, only yesterday, that I am to him what Hardy must have been to me. Such tributes are worth having, aren't they, even if I don't deserve them.”

Thomas Hardy Siegfried Sassoon

Book:Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage

Source: Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage

“By another angle, Hardy is pessimist about gods and optimist about the man. Bhutta”

Thomas Hardy Lecturer M K Bhutta Return Of The Native

Author:Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar

“Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him.”

Heaven Fate Disappointments Thomas Hardy The Mayor Of Casterbridge Substitutions

Book:The Mayor of Casterbridge

Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge