"People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them."

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“Else von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first Dadaiste in New York and the Little Review has discovered her. This movement should capture American like a prairie fire.”

“Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America.”

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“We were people of a circle of supposed highcultivated life conduct by intellectual morality--higher than society in its hypocritical meshes.”

“a citizen of terror, a contemporary without a country.”

“All who want me would like to eat me up, But I am too expansive and am open to all sides, desire this here and that there.”

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