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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. - Mary McCarthy

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1912-89, US novelist and critic

Born:21st June, 1912
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Starsign: Gemini

Author Keywords: Critic, Novelist


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T S Elliot, Roland Barthes, Lionel Trilling, Octavia Butler, Harold Coffin

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