Alan Brien
Alan Brien (12 March 1925 – 23 May 2008) was an English journalist best known for his novel Lenin. This took the form of a fictional diary charting Lenin's life from the death of his father to shortly before his own demise in 1924.
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“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
—Alan Brien (b. 1925)
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Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
Cole: Lord almighty.
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“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”
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