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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

Boris Vian

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:

I Spit on Your Graves (1946)
Heartsnatcher (1953)
Froth on the Daydream (1947)
Foam of the Daze
Autumn in Peking (1947)

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