Mary Renault

Quotes

• “Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.”
• “It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.”
• “The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.”
• “Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.”
• “He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship…”
• “He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.”

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Key facts

Born

Eileen Mary Challans , ( 1905-09-04 ) 4 September 1905, Forest Gate , Essex, England

Died

13 December 1983 (1983-12-13) (aged 78), Cape Town , South Africa

Occupation

Writer

Education

St Hugh's College, Oxford

Period

1939–1981

Genre

Historical fiction , contemporary romance , war novel , gay literature

Notable works

The King Must Die The Charioteer The Last of the Wine Fire from Heaven The Persian Boy Funeral Games

Partner

Julie Mullard (1933–1983)

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Image

Mary Renault 1946.jpg

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