Prostitution. Selling one’s body to keep one’s soul…one might say of most modern marriages that they were selling one’s soul to keep one’s body.
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You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
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Birth: | 17th January, 1883 |
Death: | 30th November, 1972 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Actor, Broadcaster, Political Analyst, Writer |
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Sir Compton Mackenzie was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories and memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party.
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