Henry De Vere Stacpoole

(1863–1951) Writer

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Henry De Vere Stacpoole was a writer.

Quick Facts About Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Born: April 9, 1863
Died: April 12, 1951
Profession: Writer

About Henry De Vere Stacpoole

British writer (1863-1951)... | Henry de Vere Stacpoole was an Irish author. His 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon has been adapted into multiple films. He published using his own name and sometimes the pseudonym Tyler de Saix.

Quotes by Henry De Vere Stacpoole

“...he was presently rewarded with the sight of the present day disgrace of England. Out of the bathing tent, and into the…

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“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no…

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“A great sea fog is not homogenous--its density varies: it is honeycombed with streets, it has its caves of clear air, its…

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Fog

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“...the thoughts we think in childhood, Captain, are the fathers of the thoughts we think when we are grown up.”

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Children

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“When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and…

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“The moon rose up that evening and shot her silver arrows at the house under the artu tree. The house was empty.…

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“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no…

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