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— H. L. Mencken"Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard."
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The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.
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