“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 , book Pictures from an Institution

Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 1, p. 8

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