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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
Critic
Film Critic
Journalist
Writer
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Art
Legislature
Morals
Sex
Imagination
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