A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people… - Robert Payne

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A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 3 March 1983) was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

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