Quote#Books & Reading
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the…
Quote byGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1856–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913), Preface to the 1913 edition.
English (original)
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
— George Bernard Shaw
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