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Anthony Burgess

Birthday: February 25, 1917
Deathday: November 25, 1993
Category: English Novelist
Type: Novelist
National: English

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

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