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... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

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Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Peoria
Illinois
Gravity
Precisely
Beyond
Sleep
Live
Come
Good
Things
Defy

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