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That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.
William McIlvanney
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William McIlvanney
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 25
Died: 2015
Died: December 5
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