Hugh Kingsmill
Hugh Kingsmill Lunn was a British writer and journalist. The writers Arnold Lunn and Brian Lunn were his brothers.
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Background
- Educated at
- University of OxfordHarrow School
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Trending topics shown first"There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame e…"
"Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from…"
"Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears an…"
"Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross."
"Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive."
"The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life,…"
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1889
Born
Birth1949
Died
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