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Believe me all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Jean Anouilh

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Jean Anouilh
Age: 77 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 1987
Died: October 3
Author
Director
Dramatist
Film Director
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Bordèu
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
Men
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Young
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Wickedness
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