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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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