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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

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Jean Anouilh
Age: 77 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 1987
Died: October 3
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
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Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
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