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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Superficially
Intimately
Hundred
Better
Book

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