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blind quote en · NOUN

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1. A statement from an anonymous or unattributed source.
   • There is a key line from Wolman that Isou must have missed (“And their revolts were turning into acts of conformity”); blind quotes from John Ford's Rio Grande and from Saint-Just (“Happiness is a new idea in Europe”). 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Attack on Charlie Chaplin”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:

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