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‘H.G.’ in spite of his sometimes shatteringly pessimistic prophecies looks the very picture of an Optimist. He is always as pink as though he had just come in from digging in the garden. He perpetually twinkles as though he were catching the eye of the Universe over some cosmic joke, and he is of what men call a ‘useful build’.
A Story-Teller Tells the Truth (London: Hutchinson, 1935) pp. 154–5, 195.
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Ruck, B. (1980). The Picture of an Optimist. In: Hammond, J.R. (eds) H. G. Wells. Interviews & recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04967-7_5
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