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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Herbert Gold

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Herbert Gold
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: March 9
Novelist
Cleveland
Ohio
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Nerves
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Nightmare
Memories
Demands
Beauty
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Literature
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