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Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Jayne Anne Phillips
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 19
Novelist
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Buckhannon
West Virginia
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