"I reflected that where vanity of that sort is to be found on one side of a contract there is always hope on the other."
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Pictures in the Fire (p. 73)
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John Collier
John Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born writer and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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