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Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.

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The most woeful ingredients of the Spanish civil war were its selfish motives, the hidden ambitions it served, the emphasis on hollow words used by both sides; it seemed to be a comedy—terribly bloody—but a comedy all the same.

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All my life I have been favored by incredible luck. It would take too long to enumerate all of the occasions...

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Born: October 10, 1913
Died: July 6, 2005 (aged 91)
Bio: Claude Simon was a French novelist and critic, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Known for:
  1. La route des Flandres (1960)
  2. Die Akazie (1989)
  3. The Flanders Road (1960)
  4. The Jardin des Plantes (1997)
  5. The Trolley (2002)

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