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“Not everyone gets the chance to live...

“Not everyone gets the chance to live his life twice over or has the good fortune to be born into a world of such violent motion as the one in which I have managed to survive for more than 80 years.”

--Theatrical figure John Houseman, who died in Malibu on Monday at 86, summing up his life in the final sentence of his three-book autobiography.

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