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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .

Source: On deadpan comedian Buster Keaton, Comedy's Greatest Era reprinted in Life, Fall 1986.
-- James Agee, (Nov 27 1909-1955), US novelist, poet; He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for A Death in the Family.

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