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I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Robyn Hitchcock

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Robyn Hitchcock
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 3
Film Actor
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London
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Robyn Rowan Hitchcock
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