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Memoirs of Hecate County (1942)
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It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
May 8, 1895
Died:
June 12, 1972
(aged 77)
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