"I hope I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat, A spade is never so merely a spade as the word Spade would imply."
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Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry (December 18, 1907 – June 30, 2005), born Christopher Harris, in Bristol, was an English playwright. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1962, and the Benson Medal in 2000.
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