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# Harold Acton

(1904–1994)   Writer

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Harold Acton was a writer.

## Quick Facts About Harold Acton

Born July 5, 1904

Died February 27, 1994

Profession Writer

## About Harold Acton

British writer and scholar (1904–1994)... \| Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he transl

##  Quotes by Harold Acton

> [The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-acton/the-biographies-and-autobiographies-are-on-the-whole-more-impressive/)

Harold Acton

[Autobiography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autobiography/)

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> [So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-acton/so-often-is-the-virgin-sheet-of-paper-more-real-than-what-one-has-to/)

Harold Acton

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/harold-acton-81158_paper_so-often-is-the-virgin-sheet-of-paper-mo_2720882.png)

> [Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-acton/some-people-take-no-mental-exercise-apart-from-jumping-to-conclusions/)

Harold Acton

[Conclusion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conclusion/)

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