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We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
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