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"It always strikes me as very sad," Dick said, "that the man who does really the best work for the stage or for the magazines so often gets the least fame and least money out of it. Now, as far as I am any judge, that little curtain-raiser was both natural and charming.
A man who could write like that ought to be at the very top of his profession. I suppose the author never did anything for you again?"