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We must grant
the artist his subject, his idea,
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what the French
call his donnée; our criticism is
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applied only to
what he makes of it.
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There is an
old-fashioned distinction between the
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novel of
character and the novel of incident . . . .
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It appears to me
as little to the point as the
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equally
celebrated distinction between the novel
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and the
romance- to answer as little to any reality.
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There are bad
novels and good novels, as there
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are bad
pictures and good pictures; but that is the
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only distinction
in which I see any meaning. . .
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