“It’s indecent and inhuman to put full length mirrors in bathroom doors. They cause narcissism in the young and unhappiness in the old.”

—  Fredric Brown , book The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 1, “1997” (p. 147)

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American novelist, short story author 1906–1972

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