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Crafts Quotes by Henry James
- In art economy is always beauty.
- That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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