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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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