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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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