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title: "3 Published America Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-dean/when-paul-beatty-s-the-sellout-was-first-published-in-america-in-2015/)

[Michelle Dean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-dean/)

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> [The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/the-most-efficacious-secular-book-that-ever-was-published-in-america/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [I published so many books, which, for years, didn't get published here in America, at all - and which barely got any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/i-published-so-many-books-which-for-years-didn-t-get-published-here/)

[Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-dyer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1c/geoff-dyer-8822_attention_i-published-so-many-books-which-for-year_698950.jpg)

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