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If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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