“Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.”

"If the Twain Shall Meet" (1964), inThe Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 569.

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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994

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