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It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence . . .

Source: Hanoi, Language (1968).
-- Mary McCarthy, (Jun 21 1912-1989), US novelist, critic; She was noted for witty acerbic novels and writings about art and politics; wrote The Company She Keeps, 1942 and How I Grew, 1987.

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