Montherlant
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The French author Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes in white ink on a white page.”
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2020
The French writer Henry de Montherlant said that happiness writes white.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2013
Hemingway and his Paris crowd were very important to me; Joyce, Camus, Chekhov but also Henrik Ibsen and – in the German speaking countries – the nearly forgotten Henry de Montherlant.
From The Guardian • May 15, 2013
It's the Henry de Montherlant line that "happiness writes white."
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2012
Even after Solange has been introduced, and her love affair is approaching a climax, de Montherlant stops the story to write a leisurely essay on happiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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