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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Art
Domingo
Pity
Ignorance

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