“What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?”

Source: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 11 (p. 116).

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American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910–1992

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