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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Boris Vian

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Boris Vian

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Born: March 10, 1920
Died: June 23, 1959 (aged 39)
Bio: Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels.
Known for:
  1. I Spit on Your Graves (1946)
  2. Heartsnatcher (1953)
  3. Froth on the Daydream (1947)
  4. Foam of the Daze
  5. Autumn in Peking (1947)

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