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Elia Kazan Quotes: I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
         

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.


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