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Background
- Born in
- Taplow
- Educated at
- Downside School
- Awards
- 🏆 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
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Trending topics shown first"I Am the Artist when I am Open. When I am closed I am Brion Gysin."
"Language is an abominable misunderstanding which makes up a part of matter. The painters and the physicists have treated matter pretty well. The poets have hardly touched it. In March 1958, when I was…"
"I view life as a fortuitous collaboration ascribable to the fact that one finds oneself at the right place at the same time."
"I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career."
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1916
Born
Birth1986
Died
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