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"I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose..." — Anthony Burgess

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
Anthony Burgess
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