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Alistair MacLean
Scottish novelist (1922–1987).
Born April 28th, 1922 in Shettleston.
Died February 2nd, 1987 at 64 years old in Munich (myocardial infarction).
Occupations
biographer, screenwriter, teacher, writer
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde