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A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Colin Thubron

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Colin Thubron
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 14
Film Director
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron
Real
Bounds
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Nation
Nations
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Stories
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Past
Remembers
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