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Quotes from My Literary Passions — William Dean Howells

1837–1920 United States

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An artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

My Literary Passions (1895)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Dean Howells (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.