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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity:

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It\u2019s not that emotions are absent from the most serious of serious literature. Rather, what is missing is a kind of explicit articulation of belief, what we might call, for lack of a better word, \u201cconviction.\u201d Over time we seem to institutionally value novels that downplay the clarity of their own beliefs.

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