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Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

When the last moonshiner buys his radio, And the last, lost, wild-rabbit of a girl. Is civilized with a mail-order dress, Something will pass that was American. And all the movies will not bring it back.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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