Quote by: Leon Edel

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.


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Author Bio


  • NameLeon Edel
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornSeptember 9, 1907
  • DiedSeptember 5, 1997
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize For Biography Or Autobiography; National Book Award