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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts.

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Alexander Trocchi

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Alexander Trocchi

Alexander Trocchi

Born: July 30, 1925
Died: April 15, 1984 (aged 58)
Bio: Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi was a Scottish novelist.
Known for:
  1. Cain's Book (1960)
  2. Young Adam (1954)
  3. Helen and Desire (1954)
  4. White Thighs (1967)
  5. Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds (1963)

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