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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Pauline Kael
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Pauline Kael
Age: 82 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 19
Died: 2001
Died: September 3
Film Critic
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Petaluma
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Art
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