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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Marguerite Young

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Marguerite Young
Age: 87 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 28
Died: 1995
Died: November 17
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Marguerite Vivian Young
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