Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall

(Wilde’s friend Frank Harris considered that the “first hundred pages’ of The Picture of Dorian Gray” – recording the bantering chat of Lord Henry, Basil Hallward and Dorian – “held the results of months and months of Oscar’s talk.) Human voices
It is important to keep always in mind that Wilde had been born into a world of talk. Talk was the great currency of Wilde’s early Irish life.

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