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One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have done in the matter of the use of words, of the myriad verbal effects they have discovered, of the thousand forms of composition they have created, how they have remodelled and refashioned the language in their untiring striving for intensity of expression for the very osmazome of art, I am lost in ultimate wonder and admiration.
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The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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February 24, 1852
Died:
January 21, 1933
(aged 80)
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