Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality…The novel can help us to live, as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow, if the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.
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| — | D.H. Lawrence, “Morality and the Novel” 1925 |
