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Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly..

Source: You've Had Your Time, ch. 2, 1990.
-- Anthony Burgess, (Feb 25 1917-1993), English novelist, critic, man of letters; His fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combined wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre.

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