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Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
Author
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Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
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Noses
Scents
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Willing
Warms
Brain
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Eyes
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Jungle
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Scent

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