"All literature, all art, best seller or worst, must be sincere, if it is to be successful...Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write Prometheus Unbound. The delicate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity."
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Aldous Huxley, Essays Old and New. Also quoted in Melba Cuddy-Keane, Adam Hammond, Alexandra Peat, Modernism: Keywords. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, · 2014.
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