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But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.
Dennis Lehane
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Dennis Lehane
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 4
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Dorchester
Massachusetts
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