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Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. December 1911 – 13. January 2009
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Hortense Calisher Quotes

“A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.”

Hortense Calisher

Queenie, 1971.

Childhood , Happiness

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