"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.“


-Willa Cather

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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

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