How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel? (Randall Jarrell)

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

Randall Jarrell

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