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"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera."
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"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."

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