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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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