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He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.
Lev Grossman
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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
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Science Fiction Writer
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Massachusetts
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