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Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”

— Jean Anouilh Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010)

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Source: Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010) News Culture. p. 1
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