Every so often there's a generation likes us, Ian. Our only… - Paul Scott

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Every so often there's a generation likes us, Ian. Our only raison d'être to be blown to pieces in a war we imagine we believe in ideologically.

Paul Scott

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(March 25, 1920 – March 1, 1978) was an English novelist. He won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1977 for his novel "".

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Alternative Names: Paul Mark Scott

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Every so often there's a generation likes us, Ian. Our only raison d'être to be blown to pieces in a war we imagine we believe in ideologically. - Paul Scott

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