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David Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down, 1965

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around.

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David Dodge

(1910-1974) U.S. mystery writer Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. www.english-slang.com

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(1874-1965) British novelist Life is too short to do anything for one's self that one can pay others to do for one. www.english-slang.com

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