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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Ethel Barrymore

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Ethel Barrymore
Age: 79 †
Born: 1879
Born: August 15
Died: 1959
Died: June 18
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Ethel Mae Blythe
Artist
Generation
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