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No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
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Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.
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