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QUOTATION:As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
ATTRIBUTION:Clive James (b. 1939), Australian writer, critic. repr. In From the Land of Shadows (1982). “A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses,” London Review of Books (1980).

referring to Judith Krantz’s Princess Daisy, which fetched what was then a record advance of $3,208,875 when the rights were sold at an auction held in New York on Sept. 5, 1979.
 
 
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