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It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense... He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
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The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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Vance Palmer
Born:
August 28, 1885
Died:
July 15, 1959
(aged 73)
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Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer was an Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic.
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