Annie Baker Ford

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    “A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
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    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    “For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”
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    “In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)