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It is a constant temptation to ransack novels for scenes,
themes and characters which may have originals
in the author's life.
The danger is that we may have come
to believe that the connections are more direct
than they often are and that we thereby ignore
the transforming effect of imagination.
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Footnote
The quote is from the introduction to
by Ford Madox Ford.
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