Enid bagnold autobiography for kids

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(1) Enid Bagnold, Autobiography ()

Claud Lovat Fraser was the first to be excited by Gaudier's extraordinary talent.

But soon he drew away from him. Lovat, most indulgent of men, would never express dislike, but he would not waste time on Gaudier's burning, voluble, cascading talk, though he deeply respected his art.

I didn't like him either; and Gaudier on his side found us both middleclass.

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We had no idea then of his crippling poverty. He had no time for talk because he was out of work. Too proud to say so he talked instead of eating. He didn't want to know what people were like. He rushed at them, held them, poured his thoughts over them, and when in response, they said ten words his impatience overflowed; he jabbed and wounded and the blood flowed.

(2) Enid Bagnold, quoted in Savage Messiah ()

I went to his room in Chelsea - a large, bare room at the top of a house - it was winter, and the daylight would not last