Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.


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Suggest Revision: Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty
 
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Suggest Revision: Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
 
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Suggest Revision: The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
 
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Suggest Revision: The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
 
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Suggest Revision: The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
 
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