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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Timothy
Assured
Boredom
Anger
Passion
Without
Nothing
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