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the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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Marguerite Yourcenar
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 7
Died: 1987
Died: December 17
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Brussels
Belgium
Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Marguerite de Crayencour
People
Bigger
Represents
Seem
Smaller
Events
Journalism
Media
Mirror
Making
Newspapers
Often
Presses
Seems
Press
Really
Mirrors
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