Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave o — Edith Wharton
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave o — Edith Wharton
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave o — Edith Wharton
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave o — Edith Wharton
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave o — Edith Wharton
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Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

— Edith Wharton
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