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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

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Martin Amis
Age: 75
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But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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