“A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes.”

— Fredric Brown , book Martians, Go Home

Part 2, Chapter 2 (p. 277)
Martians, Go Home (1955)

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American novelist, short story author 1906–1972

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