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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Source: The Writing of Fiction, ch. 1.
-- Edith Wharton, (Jan 24 1862-1937), US novelist, short-story writer; She wrote about upper-class New York society in Ethan Frome, 1911 and The Age of Innocence, 1920.

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