Anne Smedley

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    You can’t write about people out of textbooks, and you can’t use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    —Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

    There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
    —Anne Smedley (c. 1894–1950)