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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

John Braine

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John Braine
Age: 64 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 13
Died: 1986
Died: October 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bradford
Yorkshire
John Gerard Braine
Rather
Eunuch
Book
Harem
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Eunuchs
Comeback
Librarian
Library
Writer
Reading

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