“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.”

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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