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Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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Art
Much
Damned
Propaganda
Connection
Clearly
Connections
Impossible

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