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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Vapor
Wreck
Wrecks
Sanity
Told
Knowing
Mind

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