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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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It is the music which makes it what it is it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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