The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. (Thomas Hardy)

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Thomas Hardy

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