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The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.

Martin Amis

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Martin Amis
Age: 75
Memoirist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Martin Louis Amis
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