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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
Dies
Hope
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Nothing
August
Journalists
Journalist
Towards
Afraid

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