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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips

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John Phillips
Age: 65 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Died: 2001
Died: March 18
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Parris Island
South Carolina
John Edmond Andrew Phillips
John E. A. Phillips
John Edmund Andrew Phillips
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