Hey there, Uncle John. Just stumbled onto your site via google while searching for some of my own work.
It's not the quote that is necessarily bad. Were it not for the attribution to Andre Gide, I'm confident it wouldn't have even been questioned. Seeing that I've been using that quote for nearly 20 years, it's interesting that you are the first person to have questioned it.
I'll have to refer you to the original quote.
ReplyDelete"Better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not."
Andre Gide's main fault was being born a Protestant. He might have gotten away with it, had he only been Catholic.
ReplyDeleteI still say get another quote! How about
ReplyDelete"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
or
"To be great is to be misunderstood."
both by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hey there, Uncle John. Just stumbled onto your site via google while searching for some of my own work.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the quote that is necessarily bad. Were it not for the attribution to Andre Gide, I'm confident it wouldn't have even been questioned. Seeing that I've been using that quote for nearly 20 years, it's interesting that you are the first person to have questioned it.
Other than that, hope all is well.